A new generation of double pyridazine molecular rotors differing in intramolecular dipole-dipole spacing was synthesized. All rotor molecules formed bulk inclusions in a tris( o-phenylenedioxy)cyclotriphosphazene (TPP) host. Results of dielectric spectroscopy were fitted to a pair of nine-state models that accounted for interactions of neighboring dipoles at either an aligned or opposed possible orientation of the local threefold dipole rotation potentials within a channel of the TPP host. The results indicate dipole-dipole interaction strengths at the 100 to 200 K scale that lead dipoles to preferentially populate a subset of low-energy configurations. They also reveal that pyridazines with ethynyl substituents in 3- and 6-positions have slightly higher rotational barriers (3.2-3.5 kcal/mol) than those carrying one ethynyl and one tert-butyl group (1.9-3.0 kcal/mol). Upon cooling, these barriers reduce the rate of thermal transitions between the potential wells so much that the inclusions cannot achieve ordered dipolar ground states.

Department of Chemistry University of Colorado Boulder Colorado 80309 0215 United States

Department of Inorganic Chemistry Faculty of Science Charles University Prague Hlavova 2030 12840 Prague 2 Czech Republic

Department of Physics University of Colorado Boulder Colorado 80309 United States

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