Figuration of bowl-shaped π-conjugated molecules: properties and functions - Materials Chemistry
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Since the first synthetic report in 2003 by Sakurai et al., sumanene (derived from the Indian
'Hindi as well as Sanskrit word'“Suman”, which means “Sunflower”), a beautifully simple yet …

Unlike planar aromatic compounds, bowl-shaped sumanene, which has concave and
convex faces with different electrostatic potentials, tends to form a one-dimensional …

Bowl-shaped aromatic molecules, buckybowls, are attractive molecules because of the
unique properties derived from their curved-π scaffolds. Doping heteroatoms into buckybowl …

This review provides an overview on recent advances in the novel field of electron-poor
buckybowls. Whereas buckybowl chemistry has now been studied for more than two …

Aromatic-fluorinated sumanene derivatives have been designed and studied systematically
using DFT and TDDFT methods. The geometric structures, frontier molecular orbitals …

We have designed and synthesized a new curved π-conjugated molecule, 1, 1-
difluorosumanene (1), which possesses two fluorine atoms on the same benzylic carbon of …

This chapter summarizes the synthesis, physical properties, structure, and crystal packing of
buckybowls. Buckybowls exemplify an intermediate class of polynuclear aromatic …

A series of co-crystals of 1, 1-difluorosumanene (F2-Sum) and sumanene (Sum) were
obtained. The co-crystallization successfully tuned their structural and physical properties …

The syntheses and properties of corannulenes carrying electron‐withdrawing groups (F,
CF3, C6F5) are reported. Direct fluorination of corannulene (C20H10) was carried out with …