Recent progress in cyclic aryliodonium chemistry: syntheses and applications

X Peng, A Rahim, W Peng, F Jiang, Z Gu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hypervalent aryliodoumiums are intensively investigated as arylating agents. They are
excellent surrogates to aryl halides, and moreover they exhibit better reactivity, which allows …

[HTML][HTML] Formation and growth mechanisms of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: A mini-review

E Reizer, B Viskolcz, B Fiser - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are mostly formed during the incomplete
combustion of organic materials, but their importance and presence in materials science …

Halogen bonding with carbon: directional assembly of non-derivatised aromatic carbon systems into robust supramolecular ladder architectures

J Vainauskas, TH Borchers, M Arhangelskis… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon, although the central element in organic chemistry, has been traditionally neglected
as a target for directional supramolecular interactions. The design of supramolecular …

Survival of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon knockout fragments in the interstellar medium

M Gatchell, J Ameixa, MC Ji, MH Stockett… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Laboratory studies play a crucial role in understanding the chemical nature of the interstellar
medium (ISM), but the disconnect between experimental timescales and the timescales of …

Open questions on carbon-based molecules in space

CS Hansen, E Peeters, J Cami… - Communications Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
It has been a great joint achievement of astronomy, laboratory spectroscopy and quantum
chemistry to identify interstellar molecules in various astronomical environments and piece …

The mystery of unidentified infrared emission bands

S Kwok - Astrophysics and Space Science, 2022 - Springer
A family of unidentified infrared emission (UIE) bands has been observed throughout the
Universe. The current observed spectral properties of the UIE bands are summarized. These …

Structure and evolution of interstellar carbonaceous dust. Insights from the laboratory

VJ Herrero, M Jiménez-Redondo, RJ Peláez… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A large fraction of interstellar carbon is locked up in solid grains. The nature, origin and
evolution of these grains have been investigated for decades. A combination of …

Quantum Chemistry and Astrochemistry: A Match Made in the Heavens

RC Fortenberry - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2024 - ACS Publications
Quantum chemistry can uniquely answer astrochemical questions that no other technique
can provide. Computations can be parallelized, automated, and left to run continuously …

Formation of benzene and naphthalene through cyclopentadienyl-mediated radical–radical reactions

RI Kaiser, L Zhao, W Lu, M Ahmed… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Resonantly stabilized free radicals (RSFRs) have been contemplated as fundamental
molecular building blocks and reactive intermediates in molecular mass growth processes …

Machine learning identified molecular fragments responsible for infrared emission features of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Z Meng, Y Zhang, E Liang… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Machine learning feature importance calculations are used to determine the molecular
substructures that are responsible for mid-and far-infrared (IR) emission features of neutral …