Doped dialkylated phenazines : a novel series of highly conducting organic solids

Abstract

Doping dimethylphenazine (M2P)-TCNQ and diethylphenazine (E2P)-TCNQ with phenazine gave rise to new conducting compounds with segregated stacks : (M2P)0.5 (P)0,5 TCNQ and (E2P)0,55 (P)0,45 TCNQ. The room temperature electrical conductivities are in the range 10-100 Ω-1 cm-1 for (1) and 1-10 Ω-1cm-1 for (2). The paramagnetism of both compounds could be separated into contributions from TCNQ and Phenazine stacks. The structural electrical and magnetic similarities of (1) with the well-known N-methylphenazinium (NMP)-TCNQ led to a reexamination of its magnetic properties. It was shown that an estimate of the charge transfer can be obtained from the temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility.