Metallaaromatic chemistry: history and development

D Chen, Y Hua, H **a - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Since the prediction of the existence of metallabenzenes in 1979, metallaaromatic chemistry
has developed rapidly, due to its importance in both experimental and theoretical fields …

Chemistry of meso-Aryl-Substituted Expanded Porphyrins: Aromaticity and Molecular Twist

T Tanaka, A Osuka - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Since the discovery of its facile synthesis in 2001, meso-aryl-substituted expanded
porphyrins have been developed as a new class of azaannulenes in light of their facile …

Nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS) as an aromaticity criterion

Z Chen, CS Wannere, C Corminboeuf, R Puchta… - Chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Few concepts are as frequently used as aromaticity in the current chemical literature. 1 This
may be quantified by ca. 300 000 papers dealing with the aromatic properties of chemical …

Expanded porphyrins: intriguing structures, electronic properties, and reactivities

S Saito, A Osuka - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The chemistry of expanded porphyrins, which are higher homologues of porphyrins, has
been intensively explored for the last three decades. Expanded porphyrins exhibit …

Nonconjugated hydrocarbons as rigid‐linear motifs: Isosteres for material sciences and bioorganic and medicinal chemistry

GM Locke, SSR Bernhard… - Chemistry–A European …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Nonconjugated hydrocarbons, like bicyclo [1.1. 1] pentane, bicyclo [2.2. 2] octane,
triptycene, and cubane are a unique class of rigid linkers. Due to their similarity in size and …

Current density and molecular magnetic properties

D Sundholm, M Dimitrova, RJF Berger - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We give an overview of the molecular response to an external magnetic field perturbing
quantum mechanical systems. We present state-of-the-art methods for calculating …

Porphyrinoids, a unique platform for exploring excited-state aromaticity

J Kim, J Oh, A Osuka, D Kim - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, Baird (anti) aromaticity has been referred to as a description of excited-state (anti)
aromaticity. With the term of Baird's rule, recent studies have intensively verified that the …

Circularly polarized luminescence in a Möbius helicene carbon nanohoop

J Malinčík, S Gaikwad, JP Mora‐Fuentes… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present the first helicene carbon nanoohop that integrates a [6] helicene into [7]
cycloparaphenylene. The [6] helicene endows the helicene carbon nanohoop with …

Flexible porphyrinoids

B Szyszko, MJ Białek, E Pacholska-Dudziak… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This review underscores the conformational flexibility of porphyrinoids, a unique class of
functional molecules, starting from the smallest triphyrins (1.1. 1) via [18] porphyrins (1.1 …

Figure eights, Möbius bands, and more: conformation and aromaticity of porphyrinoids

M Stępień, N Sprutta… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The aromatic character of porphyrins, which has significant chemical and biological
consequences, can be substantially altered by judicious modifications of the parent ring …