Recent advances in heterocyclic nanographenes and other polycyclic heteroaromatic compounds

A Borissov, YK Maurya, L Moshniaha… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review surveys recent progress in the chemistry of polycyclic heteroaromatic molecules
with a focus on structural diversity and synthetic methodology. The article covers literature …

Non‐Alternant Nanographenes Bearing N‐Doped Non‐Hexagonal Pairs: Synthesis, Structural Analysis and Photophysical Properties

H Luo, J Liu - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction of non‐hexagons and/or heteroatoms allows for finely tuning the
physicochemical properties of nanographenes. Heteroatoms do** have dominated the …

Electrochemical synthesis of heterodehydro [7] helicenes

MI Khalid, MSH Salem, M Sako, M Kondo… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Dehydrohelicenes are some of the most attractive chiroptical materials with unique helical
chirality. However, to our knowledge, there are no prior reports on their direct construction by …

Heterocyclic [9] Helicenes Exhibiting Bright Circularly Polarized Luminescence

SS Warthegau, AE Hillers‐Bendtsen… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We describe a concise synthetic strategy for the preparation of heterocyclic [9] helicenes and
a simple preparative‐scale protocol for the optical resolution of the resulting M‐and P …

Localized antiaromaticity hotspot drives reductive dehydrogenative cyclizations in bis-and mono-helicenes

Z Zhou, DT Egger, C Hu, M Pennachio… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We describe reductive dehydrogenative cyclizations that form hepta-, nona-, and decacyclic
anionic graphene subunits from mono-and bis-helicenes with an embedded five-membered …

Hetero [8] circulenes: Synthetic progress and intrinsic properties

Y Miyake, H Shinokubo - Chemical Communications, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this Feature Article, we summarize the synthetic progress of hetero [8] circulenes, focusing
on their structures and intrinsic properties. Various hetero [8] circulenes have been …

Facile synthesis of azahelicenes and diaza [8] circulenes through the intramolecular Scholl reaction

C Maeda, S Nomoto, K Akiyama… - … –A European Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Carbazole‐based aza [7] helicenes and hetero [9] helicenes were successfully
obtained via the intramolecular Scholl reaction of 3, 6‐bis (biphenyl‐2‐yl) carbazole …

A fully conjugated planar heterocyclic [9] circulene

SK Pedersen, K Eriksen, H Ågren… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fully aromatic [n] circulenes have only been known to encompass up to eight aromatic rings
(n= 8), with no reports of endeavors in the synthesis of higher-order analogues (n> 8) …

Highly Stable Radical Cations of N,N'‐Diarylated Tetrabenzotetraaza[8]circulene

Y Matsuo, T Tanaka, A Osuka - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract N, N'‐Diarylated tetrabenzotetraaza [8] circulenes 3 a and 3 b were synthesized in
good yields by a reaction sequence involving oxidation of tetrabenzodiazadithia [8] …

Unraveling the Aromatic Rule of Cyclic Superatomic Molecules in π-Conjugated Compounds

X Yu, P Wu, Q Yuan, C Yan, D Li… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The aromaticity of π-conjugated compounds has long been a confusing issue. Based on a
recently emerged two-dimensional (2D) superatomic-molecule theory, a unified rule was …