Benzenoid Quinodimethanes

On-Surface Synthesis of Heptacene Organometallic Complexes

(2017) José I. Urgel et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Heptacene: Characterization in Solution, in the Solid State, and in Films

(2017) Ralf Einholz et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

On-surface synthesis of heptacene and its interaction with a metal surface

(2017) Malte Zugermeier et al.   Nanoscale

Synthesis and characterization of triangulene

(2017) Niko Pavliček et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Super-heptazethrene

(2016) Wangdong Zeng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Higher Order π-Conjugated Polycyclic Hydrocarbons with Open-Shell Singlet Ground State: Nonazethrene versus Nonacene

(2016) Rui Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edge topology

(2016) Pascal Ruffieux et al.   NATURE

Kinetically Blocked Stable 5,6:12,13-Dibenzozethrene: A Laterally π-Extended Zethrene with Enhanced Diradical Character

(2016) Priya Yadav et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

2,11-Dibromo-13,14-dimesityl-5,8-dioxapentaphene: A Stable and Twisted Polycyclic System Containing the o-Quinodimethane Skeleton

(2016) Chihiro Sato et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Diradical approach toward organic near infrared dyes

(2016) Yong Ni et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Giant edge state splitting at atomically precise graphene zigzag edges

(2016) Shiyong Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Tetrabenzoperipentacene: Stable Five-Electron Donating Ability and a Discrete Triple-Layered β-Graphite Form in the Solid State

(2015) Akinobu Matsumoto et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Perylene Bisimide Radicals and Biradicals: Synthesis and Molecular Properties

(2015) David Schmidt et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Closing the Nanographene Gap: Surface-Assisted Synthesis of Peripentacene from 6,6′-Bipentacene Precursors

(2015) Cameron Rogers et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Tetrabenzo[a,f,j,o]perylene: A Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon With An Open-Shell Singlet Biradical Ground State

(2015) Junzhi Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Tetrabenzocircumpyrene: a nanographene fragment with an embedded peripentacene core

(2015) Ruth Dorel et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Recent Progress in Quinoidal Singlet Biradical Molecules

(2015) Takashi Kubo   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

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

(2015) Zhenglong Lim et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

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

Synthesis and Characterization of [n]CPP (n = 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12) Radical Cation and Dications: Size-Dependent Absorption, Spin, and Charge Delocalization

(2015) Eiichi Kayahara 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

Bottom-Up Synthesis of Chemically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons

(2014) Akimitsu Narita et al.   CHEMICAL RECORD

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

(2014) Zebing Zeng et al.   CHEMICAL RECORD

In-Plane Aromaticity in Cycloparaphenylene Dications: A Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Theoretical Study

(2014) Naoyuki Toriumi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

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

(2014) Zhe Sun et al.   ChemPlusChem

Isolation and Characterization of the Cycloparaphenylene Radical Cation and Dication

(2013) Eiichi Kayahara et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

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

The Multiradical Character of One- and Two-Dimensional Graphene Nanoribbons

(2013) Felix Plasser et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Diradicals

(2013) Manabu Abe   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Toward theperi-Pentacene Framework

(2013) Lukas Zöphel 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

Termini of Bottom-Up Fabricated Graphene Nanoribbons

(2013) Leopold Talirz et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

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

7,7,8,8-Tetraaryl-o-quinodimethane Stabilized by Dibenzo Annulation: A Helical π-Electron System That Exhibits Electrochromic and Unique Chiroptical Properties

(2012) Takanori Suzuki et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

High Magnetic Exchange Coupling Constants: A Density Functional Theory Based Study of Substituted Schlenk Diradicals

(2012) Iqbal A. Latif et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Tuning the Quinoid versus Biradicaloid Character of Thiophene-Based Heteroquaterphenoquinones by Means of Functional Groups

(2012) Eleonora V. Canesi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

Topographic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Electronic Edge States in CVD Grown Graphene Nanoribbons

(2012) Minghu Pan et al.   NANO LETTERS

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

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

Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Crystalline Nonacenes

(2011) Balaji Purushothaman et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The electronic structure of p-xylylene and its reactivity with vinyl molecules

(2011) Maciej Bobrowski et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Effect of Hydrogen Termination on Carbon K-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectra of Nanographene

(2011) Zhufeng Hou et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Diradical Character View of Singlet Fission

(2011) Takuya Minami et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Air- and Heat-Stable Planar Tri-p-quinodimethane with Distinct Biradical Characteristics

(2011) Xiaozhang Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

Spatially resolving edge states of chiral graphene nanoribbons

(2011) Chenggang Tao et al.   Nature Physics

Three-Dimensional Intramolecular Exchange Interaction in a Curved and Nonalternant π-Conjugated System: Corannulene with Two Phenoxyl Radicals

(2010) Akira Ueda et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photogeneration of Octacene and Nonacene

(2010) Christina Tönshoff 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

Aryne,ortho-Quinone Methide, andortho-Quinodimethane: Synthesis of Multisubstituted Arenes Using the Aromatic Reactive Intermediates

(2010) Hiroto Yoshida et al.   BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

meso-Substituted Bisanthenes as Soluble and Stable Near-infrared Dyes

(2010) Jinling Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Biradicaloid and Polyenic Character of Quinoidal Oligothiophenes Revealed by the Presence of a Low-Lying Double-Exciton State

(2010) Simone Di Motta et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Synthesis and Characterization of Teranthene: A Singlet Biradical Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Having Kekulé Structures

(2010) Akihito Konishi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Two-Dimensional Polymer Formation on Surfaces: Insight into the Roles of Precursor Mobility and Reactivity

(2010) Marco Bieri et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Atom-by-atom spectroscopy at graphene edge

(2010) Kazu Suenaga et al.   NATURE

Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons

(2010) Jinming Cai et al.   NATURE

Fused Bispentacenequinone and Its Unexpected Michael Addition

(2010) Xiaojie Zhang et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Observation of magnetic edge state in graphene nanoribbons

(2010) V. L. Joseph Joly et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

An isolable o-quinodimethane and its fixation of molecular oxygen to give an endoperoxide

(2009) Dumitru Ghereg et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Porous graphenes: two-dimensional polymer synthesis with atomic precision

(2009) Marco Bieri et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

On the existence of a spin-polarized state in the n-periacene molecules

(2009) F. Moscardó et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Synthesis, Optical, and Electronic Properties of Soluble Poly-p-phenylene Oligomers as Models for Molecular Wires

(2009) Moloy Banerjee et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Diels−Alder Reactivity of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Bay Regions: Implications for Metal-Free Growth of Single-Chirality Carbon Nanotubes

(2009) Eric H. Fort et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Soluble and Stable Quinoidal Bisanthene with NIR Absorption and Amphoteric Redox Behavior

(2009) Kai Zhang et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

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

(2009) Rui Umeda et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Circumacenes versus periacenes: HOMO–LUMO gap and transition from nonmagnetic to magnetic ground state with size

(2008) De-en Jiang et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Matrix Isolation, Spectroscopic Characterization, and Photoisomerization ofm-Xylylene

(2008) Patrik Neuhaus et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY