Confining molecules can fundamentally change their chemical and physical properties.
Confinement effects are considered instrumental at various stages of the origins of life, and …

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

Acenes are intriguing molecules with unique electronic properties. The difficulties in their
preparation owing to low stability under ambient conditions are apparent because …

A unified approach to the synthesis of the series of higher acenes up to previously
unreported undecacene has been developed through the on‐surface dehydrogenation of …

The acene series represents a model system to investigate the intriguing electronic
properties of extended π-electron structures in the one-dimensional limit, which are …

In this Review article pioneering work and recent achievements in the emerging research
area of on‐surface chemistry is discussed. On‐surface chemistry, sometimes also called two …

The larger acenes and heteroacenes (> pentacenes) are attractive, yet sensitive materials;
several strategies were developed to stabilize such species.“Classic” approaches employ …

The character of the electronic structure of acenes has been the subject of longstanding
discussion. However, convincing experimental evidence of their open‐shell character has …

The on-surface synthesis of nonacene has been accomplished by dehydrogenation of an air-
stable partially saturated precursor, which could be aromatized by using a combined …

On‐surface synthesis constitutes a rapidly growing field of research due to its promising
application for creating stable molecular structures on surfaces. While self‐assembled …