We show that the origin of the antiferromagnetic coupling in spin-1 triangulene chains, which were recently synthesized and measured by Mishra et al. ( 2021, 598, 287-292), originates from a superexchange mechanism. This process, mediated by intertriangulene states, opens the possibility to control parameters in the effective bilinear-biquadratic spin model. We start from the derivation of an effective tight-binding model for triangulene chains using a combination of tight-binding and Hartree-Fock methods fitted to hybrid density functional theory results. Next, correlation effects are investigated within the configuration interaction method. Our low-energy many-body spectrum for = 2 and = 4 triangulene chains agree well with the bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 chain antiferromagnetic model when indirect coupling processes and superexchange coupling between triangulene spins are taken into account.
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