An Organic Mixed‐Valence Ligand for Multistate Redox‐Active Coordination Networks

Abstract

The multistate redox‐active/multi‐interactive ligand 5,5′,8,8′‐tetra(4‐pyridyl)‐2,2′‐(1,4‐phenylene)bis‐1H‐perimidine (H2TPP) was designed and synthesized. H2TPP undergoes four one‐electron oxidation steps, and was used for the preparation of a multistate redox‐active coordination network in a solid–liquid interface reaction using molten Cd2+ salts. The multiple redox states of H2TPP were confirmed spectroscopically by stepwise four‐electron oxidation. Spectroscopic analysis indicated that the mixed‐valence states of the ligand are class II on the UV/Vis/NIR timescale and borderline class II/class III on the ESR timescale.