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 …

Surfaces are at the frontier of every known solid. They provide versatile supports for
functional nanostructures and mediate essential physicochemical processes. Intimately …

AD 3 h-symmetric hexatopic monomer was first prepared by attaching the three-fold ditopic
moiety 2, 6-dimethylpyridine to the meta-positions of a phenyl ring. It was further condensed …

Abstract The [n] cycloparaphenylenes ([n] CPPs)—n para-linked phenylenes that form a
closed-loop—have attracted substantial attention due to their unique cyclic structure and …

Recent advances on surface-assisted synthesis have demonstrated that arrays of
nanometer wide graphene nanoribbons can be laterally coupled with atomic precision to …

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 …

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 …

Engineering low‐band‐gap π‐conjugated polymers is a growing area in basic and applied
research. The main synthetic challenge lies in the solubility of the starting materials, which …

The combination of alkyne and halogen functional groups in the same molecule allows for
the possibility of many different reactions when utilized in on-surface synthesis. Here, we …