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 …

Saddle‐Shaped Third Component with Out‐of‐Plane Electrostatic Dipole for Realizing High‐Performance Photovoltaic Donor Terpolymers

S Hao, X Xu, L Yu, S Peng, J Xia, Y Xie… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Terpolymer fabrication is an effective methodology for molecular engineering and
generating high‐performance organic photovoltaic materials to construct highly efficient …

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 …

Saddle-shaped aza-nanographene with multiple odd-membered rings

M Krzeszewski, Ł Dobrzycki, AL Sobolewski… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A saddle-shaped aza-nanographene containing a central 1, 4-dihydropyrrolo [3, 2-b] pyrrole
(DHPP) has been prepared via a rationally designed four-step synthetic pathway …

A nitrogen-doped nanotube molecule with atom vacancy defects

K Ikemoto, S Yang, H Naito, M Kotani, S Sato… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes have attracted attention in various fields, but lack of
congeners with discrete molecular structures has hampered developments based on in …

Synthesis of a Negatively Curved Nanocarbon Molecule with an Octagonal Omphalos via Design‐of‐Experiments Optimizations Supplemented by Machine Learning

K Ikemoto, M Akiyoshi, T Mio, K Nishioka… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A saddle‐shaped nanocarbon molecule was synthesized, which revealed the existence of
negative Gauss curvatures on a> 3‐nm molecular structure possessing 192 π‐electrons …

Selective access to either a doubly boron-doped tetrabenzopentacene or an oxadiborepin from the same precursor

J Radtke, K Schickedanz, M Bamberg, L Menduti… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The well-known red emitter tetrabenzo [de, hi, op, st] pentacene (TBPA) has been
transformed into a bright blue emitter (B2-TBPA; λem= 472 nm; c-hexane) via substitutional …

Manipulations of Chiroptical Properties in Belt‐Persistent Cycloarylenes via Desymmetrization with Heteroatom Doping

TM Fukunaga, C Sawabe, T Matsuno… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A desymmetrization strategy has been devised in the design of molecular cylinders to
maximize the dissymmetry factor relevant to circularly polarized light. Although the highest …