Emerging bottom‐up strategies for the synthesis of graphene nanoribbons and related structures

A Jolly, D Miao, M Daigle, JF Morin - Angewandte Chemie, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The solution‐phase synthesis is one of the most promising strategies for the preparation of
well‐defined graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) in large scale. To prepare high quality, defect …

Controlled growth and self‐assembly of multiscale organic semiconductor

L Bai, N Wang, Y Li - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, organic semiconductors (OSs) are widely used as active components in practical
devices related to energy storage and conversion, optoelectronics, catalysis, and biological …

Living suzuki–miyaura catalyst-transfer polymerization for precision synthesis of length-controlled armchair graphene nanoribbons and their block copolymers

J Lee, H Ryu, S Park, M Cho… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The bottom-up synthesis of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) offers a promising approach for
designing atomically precise GNRs with tuneable photophysical properties, but controlling …

A Double Twisted Nanographene with a Contorted Pyrene Core

Y Dong, Z Zhang, Y Hashikawa, H Meng… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The mature synthetic methodologies enable us to rationally design and produce chiral
nanographenes (NGs), most of which consist of multiple helical motifs. However, inherent …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as potential building blocks for organic solar cells

C Aumaitre, JF Morin - The Chemical Record, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of graphene in the early 2000′ s, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs) have been resurrected and new synthetic tools have been developed to prepare …

Chiral peropyrene: synthesis, structure, and properties

W Yang, G Longhi, S Abbate, A Lucotti… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Herein we describe the synthesis, structure, and properties of chiral peropyrenes. Using p-
terphenyl-2, 2 ″, 6, 6 ″-tetrayne derivatives as precursors, chiral peropyrenes were formed …

Bis‐peri‐dinaphtho‐rylenes: Facile Synthesis via Radical‐Mediated Coupling Reactions and their Distinctive Electronic Structures

T Shen, Y Zou, X Hou, H Wei, L Ren… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with a one‐dimensional (1D), ribbon‐like structure
have the potential to serve as both model compounds for corresponding graphene …

Annulative π‐Extension by Rhodium (III)‐Catalyzed Ketone‐Directed C− H Activation: Rapid Access to Pyrenes and Related Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs …

MR Sk, A Bhattacharyya, S Saha… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Annulative π‐extension (APEX) reaction has become a powerful tool for the precise
synthesis of well‐defined polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) such as nanographene …

Method for the Large-Scale Synthesis of Multifunctional 1,4-Dihydro-pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrroles

M Tasior, O Vakuliuk, D Koga, B Koszarna… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A thorough investigation has enabled the optimization of the synthesis of 1, 4-dihydro-
pyrrolo [3, 2-b] pyrroles. Although salts of such metals as vanadium, niobium, cerium, and …

Nanographene and graphene nanoribbon synthesis via alkyne benzannulations

AD Senese, WA Chalifoux - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
The extension of π-conjugation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) via alkyne
benzannulation reactions has become an increasingly utilized tool over the past few years …