Covalent on-surface polymerization

L Grill, S Hecht - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
With the rapid development of scanning probe microscopy, it has become possible to study
polymerization processes on suitable surfaces at the atomic level and in real space. In the …

Controlled functionalization of o-carborane via transition metal catalyzed B–H activation

Y Quan, Z **e - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Carboranes, a class of carbon–boron molecular clusters, are often viewed as three-
dimensional analogues of benzene. They are finding increasing applications as useful …

Controlling on-surface polymerization by hierarchical and substrate-directed growth

L Lafferentz, V Eberhardt, C Dri, C Africh, G Comelli… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
A key challenge in the field of nanotechnology, in particular in the design of molecular
machines, novel materials or molecular electronics, is the bottom-up construction of …

Surface-assisted Ullmann coupling

M Lackinger - Chemical Communications, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface-assisted Ullmann coupling is the workhorse of on-surfaces synthesis. Among the
various couplings that were successfully transferred from solution to solid surfaces, Ullmann …

Recent Advances in Transition Metal-Catalyzed Selective BH Functionalization of o-Carboranes

YK Au, Z **e - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Carboranes are a class of carbon-boron molecular clusters, possessing extraordinary
characteristics including three-dimensional aromaticity conjugated by σ-bonds, icosahedral …

Carboranes in the chemist's toolbox

RN Grimes - Dalton Transactions, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Once seldom encountered outside of a few laboratories, carboranes are now everywhere,
playing a role in the development of a broad range of technologies encompassing organic …

Molecular motions in AIEgen crystals: turning on photoluminescence by force-induced filament sliding

J Zhang, B He, W Wu, P Alam, H Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Life process is amazing, and it proceeds against the eternal law of entropy increase through
molecular motion and takes energy from the environment to build high-order complexity from …

On-surface Ullmann polymerization via intermediate organometallic networks on Ag (111)

J Eichhorn, T Strunskus, A Rastgoo-Lahrood… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The role of organometallic intermediates during on-surface polymerization via Ullmann
coupling was studied on Ag (111). The polymerization progress was monitored by X-ray …

Visible-Light-Promoted Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Iodocarboranes with (Hetero) Arenes via Boron-Centered Carboranyl Radicals

S Li, Z **e - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
A general strategy for the generation of hypervalent boron-centered carboranyl radicals at
the B (3), B (4), and B (9) positions has been developed for the first time via visible-light …

Spontaneous and fast molecular motion at room temperature in the solid state

P Alam, NLC Leung, Y Cheng, H Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The development of molecular machines requires new building blocks which are easy to
characterize and visualize to realize a complexity comparable to their natural counterparts …