Recent progress in on-surface synthesis of nanoporous graphene materials

T Qin, T Wang, J Zhu - Communications Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Nanoporous graphene (NPG) materials are generated by removing internal degree-3
vertices from graphene and introducing nanopores with specific topological structures …

On-surface two-dimensional polymerization: advances, challenges, and prospects

R Li, L Zhang, T Chen, D Wang - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional polymers (2DPs) are molecularly thin networks consisting of monomers
covalently linked in at least two directions in the molecular plane. Because of the unique …

Selective synthesis of Kagome nanoporous graphene on Ag (111) via an organometallic template

X Li, D Han, T Qin, J Xiong, J Huang, T Wang, H Ding… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Kagome nanoporous graphenes (NPGs) are fascinating due to their exotic electronic and
magnetic properties. The emerging on-surface synthesis (mostly on metal surfaces) provides …

Kinetic Controlled Chirality Transfer and Induction in 2D Hydrogen‐Bonding Assemblies of Glycylglycine on Au (111)

X Zhang, H Ding, S Yang, H Yang, X Yang, B Li, X Xing… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chirality transfer is of vital importance that dominates the structure and functionality of
biological systems and living matters. External physical stimulations, eg polarized light and …

Topology Selectivity in On-Surface Dehydrogenative Coupling Reaction: Dendritic Structure versus Porous Graphene Nanoribbon

J Huang, Y Pan, T Wang, S Cui, L Feng, D Han… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Selective control on the topology of low-dimensional covalent organic nanostructures in on-
surface synthesis has been challenging. Herein, with combined scanning tunneling …

On‐Surface Synthesis of Unsaturated Hydrocarbon Chains through C− S Activation

L Giovanelli, R Pawlak, F Hussein… - … A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We use an on‐surface synthesis approach to drive the homocoupling reaction of a simple
dithiophenyl‐functionalized precursor on Cu (111). The C− S activation reaction is initiated …

Homologous series of flower phases in metal–organic networks on Au (111) surface

AI Fadeeva, VA Gorbunov, OS Solovyeva… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular coordination self-assembly on the solid surface offers great possibilities for
creating nanostructures and thin films with unique physicochemical properties. In this work …

Surface-confined metal–organic precursors comprising naphthalene-like derivatives with differently distributed halogen substituents: A Monte Carlo model

J Lisiecki, P Szabelski - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020 - ACS Publications
The on-surface synthesis of organic polymers has been recently recognized as a useful
method to create low-dimensional covalently bonded structures with tailorable topology and …

Hierarchical Activation of C–Br and Cyano ortho C–H to Form Chiral Organometallics on Ag(111)

D Han, Z Zeng, B Tian, P Wang, J Hu… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The combination of dehalogenative coupling and dehydrogenative coupling represents a
promising avenue toward the on-surface synthesis of sophisticated nanostructures. Previous …

On-surface synthesis of two types of cyano-substituted polyfluorene derivatives via Ullmann coupling on Au (111)

B Fu, J Lu, J Geng, Y Zhang, S Sun, W Xiong, Y Zhang… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Using 4-(3, 6-dibromo-9H-carbazol-9-yl) benzonitrile (DBCB) precursors, we successfully
constructed two types of cyano-substituted polymers on Au (111) by the molecular beam …