The creation and development of carbon nanomaterials promoted material science
significantly. Bottom-up synthesis has emerged as an efficient strategy to synthesize …

Helicenes are polycyclic aromatic compounds with nonplanar screw-shaped skeletons
formed by ortho-fused benzene or other aromatic rings. 1, 2 The first helicenes 1 and 2 …

Geodesic polyarenes constitute a rapidly growing family of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs) that resemble the geodesic domes of the great 20th century American architect …

The synthesis, structures, and properties of a π-extended double helicene 1 are described.
This double helicene 1 was synthesized by a four-fold oxidative C–H biphenylation of …

Hexapole helicenes 1, which contain six [5] helicene substructures, were synthesized by Pd-
catalyzed [2+ 2+ 2] cycloadditions of aryne precursor 6. Among the possible 20 …

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 …

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 …

Nonplanar polyaromatic carbon molecules including fullerenes and carbon nanotubes have
been attracting great interest due to their potential as materials, catalysts, etc. In this context …

C60 has been synthesized by chemical methods in 12 steps. Lessons learned in the
author's laboratory during a decade devoted to the synthesis and study of open geodesic …

Cyclodehydrogenation is an essential synthetic method for the preparation of polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons, polycyclic heteroaromatic compounds, and nanographenes. Among …