On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising research field aimed at
creating new organic materials. A large number of chemical reactions have been …

Understanding how molecules interact to form large-scale hierarchical structures on
surfaces holds promise for building designer nanoscale constructs with defined chemical …

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 …

Dehydrogenation reactions are key steps in many metal‐catalyzed chemical processes and
in the on‐surface synthesis of atomically precise nanomaterials. The principal role of the …

On-surface synthesis has been one of the hottest research fields in surface science in the
last decade, owing to its great potential for bottom-up synthesis of functional molecules and …

The design of innovative carbon‐based nanostructures stands at the forefront of both
chemistry and materials science. In this context, π‐conjugated compounds are of great …

Antiaromatic polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons (PCHs) are attractive research targets
because of their interesting structural, electronic and magnetic properties. Unlike aromatic …

On-surface synthesis has emerged as a powerful tool to fabricate various functional low-
dimensional nanostructures with atomic precision, thus becoming a promising platform for …

We report an example that demonstrates the clear interdependence between surface-
supported reactions and molecular-adsorption configurations. Two biphenyl-based …

The selection of a reaction pathway with high energy barrier in a multipath on-surface
reaction system has been challenging. Herein, we report the successful control of the …