Quinoidal Oligo(9,10-anthryl)s with Chain-Length-Dependent Ground States: A Balance between Aromatic Stabilization and Steric Strain Release

Pro-aromatic and anti-aromatic π-conjugated molecules: an irresistible wish to be diradicals

(2015) Zebing Zeng et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Push–Pull Type Oligo(N-annulated perylene)quinodimethanes: Chain Length and Solvent-Dependent Ground States and Physical Properties

(2015) Zebing Zeng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Zethrenes, Extended p-Quinodimethanes, and Periacenes with a Singlet Biradical Ground State

(2014) Zhe Sun et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Stable π-Extendedp-Quinodimethanes: Synthesis and Tunable Ground States

(2014) Zebing Zeng et al.   CHEMICAL RECORD

Phenalenyl-Based Open-Shell Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

(2014) Takashi Kubo   CHEMICAL RECORD

para-Quinodimethane-Bridged Perylene Dimers and Pericondensed Quaterrylenes: The Effect of the Fusion Mode on the Ground States and Physical Properties

(2014) Soumyajit Das et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Zethrene biradicals: How pro-aromaticity is expressed in the ground electronic state and in the lowest energy singlet, triplet, and ionic states

(2014) José Luis Zafra et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Design and Synthesis of New Stable Fluorenyl-Based Radicals

(2014) Yi Tian et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Zethrene and expanded zethrenes with tunable ground states and physical properties

(2014) Zhe Sun et al.   PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

A kinetically blocked 1,14:11,12-dibenzopentacene: a persistent triplet diradical of a non-Kekulé polycyclic benzenoid hydrocarbon

(2014) Yuan Li et al.   Chemical Science

Turning on the biradical state of tetracyano-perylene and quaterrylenequinodimethanes by incorporation of additional thiophene rings

(2014) Zebing Zeng et al.   Chemical Science

Indolo[2,3-b]carbazoles with tunable ground states: how Clar's aromatic sextet determines the singlet biradical character

(2014) Ding Luo et al.   Chemical Science

Highly Twisted 1,2:8,9-Dibenzozethrenes: Synthesis, Ground State, and Physical Properties

(2014) Zhe Sun et al.   ChemPlusChem

Tetracyanoquaterrylene and Tetracyanohexarylenequinodimethanes with Tunable Ground States and Strong Near-Infrared Absorption

(2013) Zebing Zeng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Indeno[2,1-b]fluorene: A 20-π-Electron Hydrocarbon with Very Low-Energy Light Absorption

(2013) Akihiro Shimizu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Diradicals

(2013) Manabu Abe   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Ap-Quinodimethane-Bridged Porphyrin Dimer

(2013) Wangdong Zeng et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Benzenoid Polycyclic Hydrocarbons with an Open-Shell Biradical Ground State

(2013) Zhe Sun et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

7,14-Diaryl-Substituted Zethrene Diimides as Stable Far-Red Dyes with Tunable Photophysical Properties

(2013) Zhe Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Pushing Extended p-Quinodimethanes to the Limit: Stable Tetracyano-oligo(N-annulated perylene)quinodimethanes with Tunable Ground States

(2013) Zebing Zeng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dibenzoheptazethrene Isomers with Different Biradical Characters: An Exercise of Clar’s Aromatic Sextet Rule in Singlet Biradicaloids

(2013) Zhe Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis and Characterization of Quarteranthene: Elucidating the Characteristics of the Edge State of Graphene Nanoribbons at the Molecular Level

(2013) Akihito Konishi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Indeno[2,1-c]fluorene: A New Electron-Accepting Scaffold for Organic Electronics

(2013) Aaron G. Fix et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Revisiting zethrene: synthesis, reactivity and semiconductor properties

(2013) Liang Shan et al.   Chemical Science

Benz[c]indeno[2,1-a]fluorene: a 2,3-naphthoquinodimethane incorporated into an indenofluorene frame

(2013) Hirokazu Miyoshi et al.   Chemical Science

Synthesis and properties of fully-conjugated indacenedithiophenes

(2013) Brian S. Young et al.   Chemical Science

Aromaticity and π-bond covalency: prominent intermolecular covalent bonding interaction of a Kekulé hydrocarbon with very significant singlet biradical character

(2012) Akihiro Shimizu et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Low band gap polycyclic hydrocarbons: from closed-shell near infrared dyes and semiconductors to open-shell radicals

(2012) Zhe Sun et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Quinoidal oligothiophenes: new properties behind an unconventional electronic structure

(2012) Juan Casado et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Kinetically Blocked Stable Heptazethrene and Octazethrene: Closed-Shell or Open-Shell in the Ground State?

(2012) Yuan Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Stable Tetrabenzo-Chichibabin’s Hydrocarbons: Tunable Ground State and Unusual Transition between Their Closed-Shell and Open-Shell Resonance Forms

(2012) Zebing Zeng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Fluoreno[4,3-c]fluorene: A Closed-Shell, Fully Conjugated Hydrocarbon

(2012) Bradley D. Rose et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Indeno[2,1-a]fluorene: An Air-Stable ortho-Quinodimethane Derivative

(2011) Akihiro Shimizu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Soluble and Stable Heptazethrenebis(dicarboximide) with a Singlet Open-Shell Ground State

(2011) Zhe Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthetic organic spin chemistry for structurally well-defined open-shell graphene fragments

(2011) Yasushi Morita et al.   Nature Chemistry

Indeno[1,2-b]fluorenes: Fully Conjugated Antiaromatic Analogues of Acenes

(2010) Daniel T. Chase et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis, Structure, and Photophysical Properties of Dibenzo[de,mn]naphthacenes

(2010) Tsun-Cheng Wu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Charge Transporting Property of Contorted Tetrabenzocoronenes

(2010) Xiaojie Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Alternating Covalent Bonding Interactions in a One-Dimensional Chain of a Phenalenyl-Based Singlet Biradical Molecule Having Kekulé Structures

(2010) Akihiro Shimizu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons

(2010) Jinming Cai et al.   NATURE

Soluble and Stable Zethrenebis(dicarboximide) and Its Quinone

(2010) Zhe Sun et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Resonance Balance Shift in Stacks of Delocalized Singlet Biradicals

(2009) Akihiro Shimizu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Tetradehydrodinaphtho[10]annulene: A Hitherto Unknown Dehydroannulene and a Viable Precursor to Stable Zethrene Derivatives

(2009) Rui Umeda et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS