On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising research field aimed at
creating new organic materials. A large number of chemical reactions have been …

The formation of chiral nanostructures via molecular assembly and reaction on solid
surfaces is a ubiquitous surface process due to the symmetry-breaking at 2D surface …

The electrical and mechanical properties of graphene‐based materials can be tuned by the
introduction of nanopores, which are sensitively related to the size, morphology, density, and …

The development of functional organic molecules requires structures of increasing size and
complexity, which are typically obtained by the covalent coupling of smaller building blocks …

On-surface synthesis has been one of the hottest research fields in surface science in the
last decade, owing to its great potential for bottom-up synthesis of functional molecules and …

The selection of a reaction pathway with high energy barrier in a multipath on-surface
reaction system has been challenging. Herein, we report the successful control of the …

On-surface synthesis has emerged as a powerful tool to fabricate various functional low-
dimensional nanostructures with atomic precision, thus becoming a promising platform for …

Hopf et al. reported the high-temperature 6π-electrocyclization of cis-hexa-1, 3-diene-5-yne
to benzene in 1969. Subsequent studies using this cyclization have been limited by its very …

Converting organoboron compounds into the corresponding radicals has broad synthetic
applications in organic chemistry. To achieve these transformations, various strong oxidants …

Belonging to the enyne family, enetriynes comprise a distinct electron-rich all-carbon
bonding scheme. However, the lack of convenient synthesis protocols limits the associated …