Bowls, hoops, and saddles: synthetic approaches to curved aromatic molecules

MA Majewski, M Stępień - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes recent advances in the chemistry of curved aromatic molecules. By
focusing on the key accomplishments of the last decade, we provide a general overview of …

Transition-metal-catalyzed silylation and borylation of C–H bonds for the synthesis and functionalization of complex molecules

IF Yu, JW Wilson, JF Hartwig - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The functionalization of C–H bonds in organic molecules containing functional groups has
been one of the holy grails of catalysis. One synthetically important approach to the diverse …

Schalen, Reifen und Sattel: Methoden zur Synthese gebogener aromatischer Moleküle

MA Majewski, M Stępień - Angewandte Chemie, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Dieser Aufsatz fast die jüngsten Fortschritte in der Chemie gekrümmter aromatischer
Moleküle zusammen. Mit dem Schwerpunkt auf den wesentlichen Erfolgen des …

Stoichiometry validation of supramolecular complexes with a hydrocarbon cage host by van't Hoff analyses

TM Fukunaga, Y Onaka, T Kato, K Ikemoto… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Defining chemical processes with equations is the first important step in characterizing
equilibria for the assembly of supramolecular complexes, and the stoichiometry of the …

Bowl‐Shaped Pentagon‐ and Heptagon‐Embedded Nanographene Containing a Central Pyrrolo[3,2‐b]pyrrole Core

M Krzeszewski, Ł Dobrzycki, AL Sobolewski… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A bowl‐shaped nitrogen‐doped nanographene composed of a pyrrolo [3, 2‐b] pyrrole core
substituted with six arene rings circularly bonded with one another has been prepared via a …

Longest C–C single bond among neutral hydrocarbons with a bond length beyond 1.8 Å

Y Ishigaki, T Shimajiri, T Takeda, R Katoono, T Suzuki - Chem, 2018 - cell.com
On the basis of the intramolecular" core-shell strategy," we designed dihydropyracylene with
two spiro (dibenzocycloheptatriene) units, for which theoretical calculations predicted a very …

Finite phenine nanotubes with periodic vacancy defects

Z Sun, K Ikemoto, TM Fukunaga, T Koretsune, R Arita… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Discrete graphitic carbon compounds serve as tunable models for the properties of
extended macromolecular structures such as nanotubes. Here, we report synthesis and …

A graphyne spoked wheel

B Zhang, S Wu, X Hou, G Li, Y Ni, Q Zhang, J Zhu… - Chem, 2022 - cell.com
Summary γ-Graphyne is an emerging carbon allotrope, and synthesis of large-size
atomically precise γ-graphyne fragments would be crucial to understand its distinctive …

On-surface synthesis of a nonplanar porous nanographene

K Xu, JI Urgel, K Eimre… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
On-surface synthesis provides an effective approach toward the formation of graphene
nanostructures that are difficult to achieve via traditional solution chemistry. Here, we report …

Synergistic Anion–(π)n–π Catalysis on π-Stacked Foldamers

AB Bornhof, A Bauzá, A Aster, M Pupier… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this report, we demonstrate that synergistic effects between π–π stacking and anion− π
interactions in π-stacked foldamers provide access to unprecedented catalytic activity. To …