One hundred years of helicene chemistry. Part 1: non-stereoselective syntheses of carbohelicenes

M Gingras - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbohelicenes belong to a class of fascinating, chiral, and helicoidal molecules, which
have a rich history in chemistry since the very beginning of the 20th century. A renewed …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the graphene era

XY Wang, X Yao, K Müllen - Science China Chemistry, 2019 - Springer
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been the subject of interdisciplinary research
in the fields of chemistry, physics, materials science, and biology. Notably, PAHs have drawn …

Advances in catalytic enantioselective synthesis of chiral helicenes and helicenoids

Y Wang, ZG Wu, F Shi - Chem Catalysis, 2022 - cell.com
Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of chiral helicenes and helicenoids has emerged as an
important area of research. In the efforts toward efficient and enantioselective synthesis of …

Large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: synthesis and discotic organization

X Feng, W Pisula, K Müllen - Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2009 - degruyter.com
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have attracted enormous interest due to their
unique electronic and optoelectronic properties as well as the potential applications in …

Metathesis in the synthesis of aromatic compounds

WAL van Otterlo, CB De Koning - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
The importance of aromatic structures in organic chemistry can never be underestimated.
Nature uses compounds containing aromatic or heteroaromatic nuclei extensively as the …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons via iron (iii)-catalyzed carbonyl–olefin metathesis

CC McAtee, PS Riehl, CS Schindler - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are important structural motifs in organic chemistry,
pharmaceutical chemistry, and materials science. The development of a new synthetic …

Synthesis of a helical analogue of kekulene: a flexible π-expanded helicene with large helical diameter acting as a soft molecular spring

Y Nakakuki, T Hirose, K Matsuda - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A π-expanded helicene that is the helically twisted analogue of kekulene was synthesized
using a 6-fold ring-closing olefin metathesis (RCM) reaction as a key step. The π-expanded …

A series of soluble thieno-fused coronene nanoribbons of precise lengths

X Yang, SM Elbert, F Rominger… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Among graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), reports on coronene-based GNRs were very rare,
despite the unique optoelectronic properties of coronene. Herein, the synthesis of a series of …

Ring‐Closing Metathesis as a Basis for the Construction of Aromatic Compounds

TJ Donohoe, AJ Orr, M Bingham - … Chemie International Edition, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The use of metathesis, especially in the context of ring‐closing metathesis (RCM) to form five‐
and six‐membered rings, is widespread in organic chemistry today. However, there are …

Iodine-catalyzed methylthiolative annulation of 2-alkynyl biaryls with DMSO: A metal-free approach to 9-sulfenylphenanthrenes

N Mukherjee, T Chatterjee - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
An iodine-catalyzed sustainable, cost-effective, and atom-economic synthetic methodology
is developed to synthesize a wide variety of valuable sulfenylphenanthrenes and polycyclic …