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

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

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

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

Tetrakis(4-tert-butylphenyl) substituted and fused quinoidal porphyrins

(2012) Wangdong Zeng et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

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

6,12-Diarylindeno[1,2-b]fluorenes: Syntheses, Photophysics, and Ambipolar OFETs

(2012) Daniel T. Chase 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

Towards Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with a Singlet Open-Shell Ground State

(2011) Christoph Lambert   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Frontiers of Quinoidal Stability in Long Oligothiophenes: Raman Spectra of Dicationic Polaron Pairs

(2011) Sandra R. González et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

Organic tailored batteries materials using stable open-shell molecules with degenerate frontier orbitals

(2011) Yasushi Morita et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

The Rylene Colorant Family-Tailored Nanoemitters for Photonics Research and Applications

(2010) Tanja Weil et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

Tri-N-annulated Hexarylene: An Approach to Well-Defined Graphene Nanoribbons with Large Dipoles

(2010) Yan Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

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

Soluble and Stable Zethrenebis(dicarboximide) and Its Quinone

(2010) Zhe Sun 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

Bis-N-annulated Quaterrylenebis(dicarboximide) as a New Soluble and Stable Near-Infrared Dye

(2009) Chongjun Jiao et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Raman Detection of “Ambiguous” Conjugated Biradicals: Rapid Thermal Singlet-to-Triplet Intersystem Crossing in an Extended Viologen

(2008) Juan Casado et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Various strategies for highly-efficient two-photon absorption in porphyrin arrays

(2008) Kil Suk Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY C-PHOTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS