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Progress in the research of radical anion ligands and their complexes

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Recent progress in the research of radical anion ligands and their complexes with metals were summarized in this review. Radical anions were sorted into several types including iminosemiquinonate and iminoquinonate radical, nitroxide radical, heterocycle radical etc. Structural characteristics and properties of the corresponding complexes were introduced. The complexes exhibited novel properties and possibility for applications in organic magnetic materials and transition metal catalysis.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (20972025, U1362110), PetroChina Innovation Foundation (2013D-5006-0503), Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-07-0142), Heilongjiang Province (41417837-8-08016) and Department of Education of Heilongjiang Province (1154H14, 1154G53).

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    Guoliang Mao, Yuanmeng Song, Tianjun Hao, Ying Li, Tao Xu, Haiyan Zhang & Tao Jiang

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Mao, G., Song, Y., Hao, T. et al. Progress in the research of radical anion ligands and their complexes. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 2936–2944 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-014-0326-2

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