BEDT-TTF Radical-cation Salts with Tris(oxalato)chromate and Guest Additives

Overview

Journal RSC Adv

Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2024 Jun 11

PMID 38860243

Authors

Toby J Blundell

Joseph O Ogar

Michael J Brannan

Elizabeth K Rusbridge

John D Wallis

Hiroki Akutsu

Yasuhiro Nakazawa

Shusaku Imajo

Lee Martin

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Abstract

The family of radical-cation salts β''-(BEDT-TTF)[(A)M(CO)]·guest (M = Fe, Cr, Ga, Al, Co, Mn, Rh, Ru; A = K, HO, NH ) has produced superconductors, metals, semiconductors, and metal-insulators through introduction of different guest molecules into the structure. We present three new additions to the family β''-(BEDT-TTF)[(A)Cr(CO)]·guest with the guest molecules toluene, phenol, or salicylaldehyde. These new guests are liquid or solid additives within the electrocrystallisation medium. All three salts show metallic behaviour from room temperature down to <10 K and do not show a superconducting transition.

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