Figure 5
The two types of stacks of semiquinone radicals. (a) A Peierls-distorted stack of radical dimers (alternating longer and shorter interplanar distances). (b) A stack of equidistant radicals. Interplanar separations are indicated as A (short, <3.2 Å), B (long, >3.5 Å) and C (intermediate, <3.3 Å). The radicals displayed are tetrachlorosemiquinone anions, and the stacks were observed in two polymorphs of the salt with the N-methylpyridinium cation (Molčanov et al., 2016). |