Heteroatom-doped nanographenes with structural precision

XY Wang, X Yao, A Narita… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus Nanographenes, which are defined as nanoscale (1–100 nm) graphene
cutouts, include quasi-one-dimensional graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and quasi-zero …

New advances in nanographene chemistry

A Narita, XY Wang, X Feng, K Müllen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Nanographenes, or extended polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, have been attracting
renewed and more widespread attention since the first experimental demonstration of …

Heterocyclic nanographenes and other polycyclic heteroaromatic compounds: synthetic routes, properties, and applications

M Stepien, E Gonka, M Żyła, N Sprutta - Chemical reviews, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Two-dimensionally extended, polycyclic heteroaromatic molecules (heterocyclic
nanographenes) are a highly versatile class of organic materials, applicable as functional …

Functional π-gelators and their applications

SS Babu, VK Praveen, A Ajayaghosh - Chemical reviews, 2014‏ - ACS Publications
Supramolecular chemistry originally defined by Lehn as “chemistry beyond molecules”
exploits noncovalent interactions between molecules to form 1D, 2D, and 3D …

Covalent self-assembly in two dimensions: connecting covalent organic framework nanospheres into crystalline and porous thin films

HS Sasmal, A Halder, S Kunjattu H, K Dey… - Journal of the …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Insolubility of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) in organic solvents is one of the major
obstacles for the potential application of these extended networks such as drug delivery …

Contorted polycyclic aromatics

M Ball, Y Zhong, Y Wu, C Schenck, F Ng… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus This Account describes a body of research in the design, synthesis, and
assembly of molecular materials made from strained polycyclic aromatic molecules. The …

A straightforward strategy toward large BN-embedded π-systems: synthesis, structure, and optoelectronic properties of extended BN heterosuperbenzenes

XY Wang, FD Zhuang, RB Wang… - Journal of the …, 2014‏ - ACS Publications
A straightforward strategy has been used to construct large BN-embedded π-systems simply
from azaacenes. BN heterosuperbenzene derivatives, the largest BN heteroaromatics to …

Site-selective Suzuki–Miyaura coupling of heteroaryl halides–understanding the trends for pharmaceutically important classes

J Almond-Thynne, DC Blakemore, DC Pryde… - Chemical …, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions of heteroaryl polyhalides with aryl boronates are
surveyed. Drawing on data from literature sources as well as bespoke searches of Pfizer's …

Syntheses and characterizations of functional polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and graphene nanoribbons

X Xu, K Müllen, A Narita - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
In contrast to zero-bandgap graphene, nanostructures of graphene, such as graphene
quantum dots (GQDs) and graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have open bandgaps due to the …

Impact of hydrophobic/hydrophilic balance on aggregation pathways, morphologies, and excited-state dynamics of amphiphilic diketopyrrolopyrrole dyes in aqueous …

N Fukaya, S Ogi, H Sotome, KJ Fujimoto… - Journal of the …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
We report the thermodynamic and kinetic aqueous self-assembly of a series of amide-
functionalized dithienyldiketopyrrolopyrroles (TDPPs) that bear various hydrophilic …