The structures of solvent-separated naphthalene and anthracene radical anions
Abstract
Reduction of naphthalene and anthracene in diglyme, a thermodynamically favourable chelate ether for Na+ solvation, with sodium metal gave the crystalline solvent-separated radical anion salts, [C10H8·–][Na+(diglyme)2] and [C14H10·–][Na+(diglyme)2] whose structures were determined.