The past decade has witnessed remarkable success in the synthesis of curved polycyclic
aromatics through Scholl reactions which enable oxidative aryl–aryl coupling even in …

As cut-outs from a graphene sheet, nanographenes (NGs) and graphene nanoribbons
(GNRs) are ideal cases with which to connect the world of molecules with that of bulk carbon …

Incorporation of main group elements into the π-conjugated frameworks is a sophisticated
strategy to alter the fundamental nature of the parent conjugated π-systems, giving rise to …

Helical bilayer nanographenes (HBNGs) are chiral π-extended aromatic compounds
consisting of two π–π stacked hexabenzocoronenes (HBCs) joined by a helicene, thus …

With the serendipitous discovery of crown ethers by Pedersen more than half a century ago
and the subsequent introduction of host–guest chemistry and supramolecular chemistry by …

Bottom‐up synthesized graphene nanostructures, including 0D graphene quantum dots and
1D graphene nanoribbons, have recently emerged as promising candidates for efficient …

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

From carbides in steel to cobalt–carbon covalent bonds in vitamin B 12, transition metal (TM)–
carbon interactions play a critical role in so many aspects of human life that we rarely realize …

Conspectus Understanding and harnessing the properties of nanoscale molecular entities
are considered as new frontiers in basic chemistry. In this regard, synthetic nanographene …

Chirality is one of the most intriguing concepts of chemistry, involving living systems and,
more recently, materials science. In particular, the bottom-up synthesis of molecular …