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Infinite Polyiodide Chains in the Pyrroloperylene–Iodine Complex: Insights into the Starch–Iodine and Perylene–Iodine Complexes |
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| Authors: | Dr. Sheri Madhu Hayden A. Evans Dr. Vicky V. T. Doan‐Nguyen Dr. John G. Labram Dr. Guang Wu Prof. Dr. Michael L. Chabinyc Prof. Dr. Ram Seshadri Prof. Dr. Fred Wudl |
| Affiliation: | 1. Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA;2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA;3. California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA;4. Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
| Abstract: | We report the preparation and X‐ray crystallographic characterization of the first crystalline homoatomic polymer chain, which is part of a semiconducting pyrroloperylene–iodine complex. The crystal structure contains infinite polyiodide I∞δ?. Interestingly, the structure of iodine within the insoluble, blue starch–iodine complex has long remained elusive, but has been speculated as having infinite chains of iodine. Close similarities in the low‐wavenumber Raman spectra of the title compound and starch–iodine point to such infinite polyiodide chains in the latter as well. |
| Keywords: | conducting materials perylenes polyhalides solid-state structures X-ray diffraction |