Abstract
This paper reviews recent work in the area of organomanganese chemistry whose purpose is the design of single-molecule components for electronics. This field has recently received much attention in the pursuit of continued miniaturization of electronics. Electron reservoirs and molecular wires are basic motifs of single-electron devices. Both can accept and release electrons in a reversible fashion, but the former can also store electrons. Our recent work in the field deals with complexes of two distinct types: mononuclear half-sandwich manganese(I) vinylidene complexes, designed for application as electron reservoirs, and half-sandwich dinuclear manganese complexes and the bis-dmpe dinuclear MnII/MnII compounds, which were designed to serve as molecular wires. However, this review will focus on the mononuclear half-sandwich manganese(I) vinylidene and butatrienylidene systems, which have been synthetically successful systems and are supported by extensive DFT calculations and further detailed investigations using NMR, IR, UV - vis, and Raman spectroscopy, CV, magnetic susceptibilities, and X-ray diffraction studies.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 5190-5200 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Organometallics |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 22 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 23 Oct 2006 |
Externally published | Yes |