The annulative π‐extension (APEX) reaction has the potential to have a tremendous impact
on the fields of materials science and bioimaging, as well as on the pharmaceutical …

The aromatic character of porphyrins, which has significant chemical and biological
consequences, can be substantially altered by judicious modifications of the parent ring …

Graphite, the most stable form of elemental carbon, consists of pure carbon sheets stacked
upon one another like reams of paper. Individual sheets, known as graphene, prefer planar …

Annulative π-extension (APEX) has emerged as a powerful and efficient synthetic method
for the construction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, nanographenes, and π-extended …

Since the discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60 (Chart 1) by Kroto, Smalley, and Curl, 1-4 a
number of reports concerning new carbon allotropes having a variety of threedimensional …

Curved π-conjugated molecules have attracted considerable interest because of the unique
properties originating from their curved π surface. However, the synthesis of such distorted …

Isolable quantities of C60, the smallest stable fullerene, have been synthesized in 12 steps
from commercially available starting materials by rational chemical methods. A molecular …

Since the discovery by Ullmann and Bielecki in 1901, reductive dimerization (or
homocoupling) of aryl halides has been extensively exploited for the generation of a range …

The optoelectronic nature of two-dimensional sheets of sp 2-hydridized carbons (for
example, graphenes and nanographenes) can be dramatically altered and tuned by altering …

Perylene diimide (PDI) is a workhorse of the organic electronics community. However, the
vast majority of designs that include PDI substitute the core with various functional groups to …