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Superconductivity in Sm-Doped [N]Phenacenes (N = 3, 4, 5) with 4 Rare-Earth-Doped Phenanthrene ChemComm View Article Online COMMUNICATION View Journal | View Issue Superconductivity in Sm-doped [n]phenacenes (n =3,4,5)† Cite this: Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 1092 Gianluca A. Artioli,a Franziska Hammerath,‡b Maria Cristina Mozzati,b Received 6th October 2014, Pietro Carretta,b Federica Corana,c Barbara Mannucci,c Serena Margadonnad and Accepted 25th November 2014 Lorenzo Malavasi*a DOI: 10.1039/c4cc07879a www.rsc.org/chemcomm We report here the discovery of a new aromatic hydrocarbon suggest that electron–electron correlations play an important superconductor, Sm-doped chrysene, with Tc B 5 K, and compare role in doped PAHs and that superconductivity in these systems its behavior with those measured in the full series of Sm-doped cannot be explained by considering only the electron–phonon [n]phenacene superconductors, with n = 3, 4, 5, thus determining interactions.11 12 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. the trend of Tc as a function of the number of fused benzene rings We have recently reviewed the actual status of the research and for an odd or even number of units. on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon superconductors pointing out the very uncommon situation where two research groups (i.e., Research activity in the field of superconductivity has moved in those that discovered the different superconducting phenacenes) the last few years towards materials containing light elements in are the only research groups capable of producing such samples, order to have cheap, lightweight and versatile superconductors in spite of the rather simple synthetic procedures, namely solid with respect to the existing materials. In particular, carbon-based state reactions between the metal and the organic materials superconductors have attracted significant interest, which has sealed under vacuum. been strongly revitalized by the discovery of a superconducting In this communication we present a new PAH superconductor, This article is licensed under a transition temperature, Tc,ofB18 K in K-doped picene, i.e. a Sm1chrysene, together with the first systematic investigation of hydrocarbon consisting of five fused benzene rings arranged in a Sm-doped [n]phenacenes (n =3,4,5),correspondingtophenan- zigzag manner.1 Picene is the n = 5 member of the [n]phenacenes threne, chrysene and picene, thus confirming the presence of class of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). To date, only a a superconducting fraction in Sm1phenanthrene and in a new Open Access Article. Published on 25 November 2014. Downloaded 10/3/2021 1:35:59 AM. few other hydrocarbon systems have shown a superconducting doped picene system (Sm1picene). 2 behavior: alkali-metal-doped phenanthrene, with a Tc of about The samples have been synthesized by means of solid state 5K,Sr1.5phenanthrene and Ba1.5phenanthrene with Tc of 5.6 reactions between the Sm metal (NewMet, 99.9% – grinded to fine 3 4 and 5.4 K, respectively, K-doped coronene with Tc around 7 K, powder in a glove box) and the organic substrates. All manipula- 5 and K-doped 1,2:8,9-dibenzopentacene (Tc ca. 30 K). Finally, in tions were carried out in an argon-filled glove box. Phenanthrene 2012, superconductivity was induced by rare-earth doping in and chrysene were purchased from Aldrich (498%) and purified by phenanthrene, with the Tc approaching 6 K for La and Sm inter- sublimation prior to use, and dried and grinded to fine powder, calated compounds.6 Together with these few experimental reports, while picene was prepared according to a new synthetic route we a rich literature on the theoretical study of different PAHs also recently developed.16 The reactions were conducted in quartz tubes appeared in recent times.7–10 Despite the absence of reliable sealed under high vacuum (ca. 10À5 Pa). The reaction temperature experimental data to date, the theoretical models available was 240 1Cforphenanthrene,3301Cforchryseneand4201Cfor picene. Samples were left in the furnace for about 96 h. After the reactions, all the samples became black and all the successive a Department of Chemistry and INSTM, University of Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy. E-mail: [email protected] manipulations and measurements were carried out with the b Department of Physics and CNISM, University of Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy samples sealed under vacuum. c Centro Grandi Strumenti, University of Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy ThepossiblepresenceofasuperconductingstateintheSm-doped d Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, Oslo 0371, Norway phenacenes studied here has been investigated by means of SQUID † Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: A susceptibility curve for magnetization measurements in magnetic fields of a few Oersteds, the pure Sm metal used for the synthesis of samples and GC/MS spectra of organic starting materials. See DOI: 10.1039/c4cc07879a both in zero-field cool (ZFC) and field-cool (FC) protocols. ‡ Present address: Institut fu¨r Festko¨rperphysik, Technische Universita¨t Dresden, Fig. 1(a)–(c) present the SQUID measurements at 6 Oe on three 01069 Dresden, Germany. distinct Sm1phenanthrene sample batches. 1092 | Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 1092--1095 This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 View Article Online Communication ChemComm Fig. 2 M/H vs. T curve for the Sm1chrysene sample at 6 Oe. SQUID magnetometry measurements that the starting Sm rod used to synthesize the Sm-doped phenacene did not show any trace of superconductivity (Fig. S1, ESI†). The next series of Sm-phenacenes investigated was Sm1chrysene. Fig. 1 (a) and (b) FC/ZFC for two different Sm1phenanthrene samples at 6 Oe; (c) the ZFC curve for a third Sm1phenanthrene sample at 6 Oe; the Chrysene is the n = 4 member of the phenacene family and in the curve in the bottom part of (c) refers to the same sample whose curve is current literature there are no reports regarding doped chrysene. shown in the top part, which underwent a compression step. Fig. 2 shows a representative susceptibility curve for Sm1chrysene Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. at 6 Oe. It is possible to observe a clear superconducting transition with As can be seen from Fig. 1(a) and (b), the susceptibility of the a Tc around 5.4 K yielding a diamagnetic signal at low temperature, samples displays a clear drop at around 5.0–5.2 K (taken at the with a shielding fraction approaching 1%, in agreement with the onset) in the ZFC curves. For the sample shown in Fig. 1(c) data on doped picene and phenanthrene.1,2 (upper curve) the drop is less pronounced and falls at a slightly Finally, we prepared and measured Sm1picene. Fig. 3 shows lower temperature. Finally, the curve presented in the lower the FC/ZFC measurement performed on Sm1picene at 6 Oe. part of Fig. 1(c) shows the result obtained for the same sample The Sm1picene has a sharp superconducting transition whose curve is shown in the upper part of the panel but after at around 4 K with a magnetic susceptibility at 2 K of about This article is licensed under a pressing the sample by means of a laboratory hydrostatic press. À0.05 Â 10À4 emu gÀ1 which is not very far from the value of In this case, as can be seen from the plot, the M/H curve displays À0.2 Â 10À4 emu gÀ1 found for the 7 K superconducting phase a diamagnetic signal with a Tc around 4.4 K. The drop in the M/H 1 of K3picene. vs. T curves shown in Fig. 1(a) and (b) is a characteristic feature Open Access Article. Published on 25 November 2014. Downloaded 10/3/2021 1:35:59 AM. We carried out XRD measurements on the new organic B of a potentially superconducting material with Tc 5K;how- superconductor synthesized, i.e. Sm1chrysene, by sealing the ever, a clear diamagnetic signal is not always observed in the sample under vacuum within a capillary. The result of the XRD samples of Sm1phenanthrene reported in Fig. 1, in spite of the investigation (Cu-radiation) is presented in Fig. 4. The XRD same reliable preparation route, suggesting that the shielding pattern of the doped sample corresponds quite nicely with that fractions are relatively small. It should be stressed that, for all the PAH superconductors reported to date, it has been observed that the shielding fractions are very low with suggested bulk superconductivity coming from the increase of these shielding fractions upon pressing the powdered samples.1,2 It has been discussed and proposed that these small shielding fractions in powder samples could arise from the penetration of the magnetic field into the superconducting phase because of the smaller size of crystallites than the London penetration depth.2 The few cases where very high shielding fractions were observed have been the object of paper retraction (see ref. 13 and 14) or subject to some criticism due to the presence of the spurious metallic La phase, which is known to be a superconductor with a Tc of about 6 K. In this work, the choice of using Sm has been motivated by the fact that Sm is not superconducting and, accordingly, one can avoid a misleading interpretation of the results. However, since La is often present as an impurity in other rare-earths, we checked by Fig. 3 M/H vs. T curve for the Sm1picene sample at 6 Oe. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 1092--1095 | 1093 View Article Online ChemComm Communication work we reported, for the first time, the evidence of a super- conducting transition in doped chrysene (i.e., the n = 4 member of the phenacene family) as well as the first preparation of Sm-doped picene. In addition, the data on Sm1phenatrene are the first confirmation, together with the data reported by the research group that discovered superconductivity in this phase, that a superconducting transition is actually present in doped phenanthrene.
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