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

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

Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Properties of 6,12-Diaryl-Substituted Indeno[1,2-b]fluorenes

(2012) Jun-ichi Nishida et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Incorporation of pyrrole to oligothiophene-based quinoids endcapped with dicyanomethylene: a new class of solution processable n-channel organic semiconductors for air-stable organic field-effect transistors

(2012) Yali Qiao et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

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

(2012) Daniel T. Chase et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Containing Quinoidal Small Molecules for High-Performance, Air-Stable, and Solution-Processable n-Channel Organic Field-Effect Transistors

(2012) Yali Qiao 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

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

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

Electron-Accepting 6,12-Diethynylindeno[1,2-b]fluorenes: Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Photophysical Properties

(2011) Daniel T. Chase et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

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

(2011) Christoph Lambert   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis of pentacene-, tetracene- and anthracene bisimides using double-cyclization reaction mediated by bismuth(iii) triflate

(2011) Shuhei Katsuta et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Semiconducting π-Conjugated Systems in Field-Effect Transistors: A Material Odyssey of Organic Electronics

(2011) Chengliang Wang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Dicyanomethylene-Substituted Fused Tetrathienoquinoid for High-Performance, Ambient-Stable, Solution-Processable n-Channel Organic Thin-Film Transistors.

(2011) Qinghe Wu et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Lateral Extension of π Conjugation along the Bay Regions of Bisanthene through a Diels-Alder Cycloaddition Reaction

(2011) Jinling Li et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Tetracene Dicarboxylic Imide and Its Disulfide: Synthesis of Ambipolar Organic Semiconductors for Organic Photovoltaic Cells

(2011) Toshihiro Okamoto et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

Open-shell polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

(2011) Zhe Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Giant Enhancement of the Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Open-Shell Singlet Polyaromatic Diphenalenyl Diradicaloids by an External Electric Field and Donor–Acceptor Substitution

(2011) Masayoshi Nakano et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Experimental consideration of covalent-bonding interactions in stacks of singlet biradicals having Kekulé structures

(2011) Akihiro Shimizu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Solution-Shear-Processed Quaterrylene Diimide Thin-Film Transistors Prepared by Pressure-Assisted Thermal Cleavage of Swallow Tails

(2011) Joon Hak Oh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Short, Rigid, Structurally Pure Carbon Nanotube by Stepwise Chemical Synthesis

(2011) Lawrence T. Scott 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

One-Pot Synthesis of Stable NIR Tetracene Diimides via Double Cross-Coupling

(2011) Wan Yue et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Physical Properties of Sterically Unprotected Hydrocarbon Radicals

(2011) Takashi Kubo 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

Open-Shell Singlet Character of Stable Derivatives of Nonacene, Hexacene and Teranthene

(2011) Xingfa Gao et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

6,13-Dibromopentacene [2,3:9,10]-Bis(dicarboximide): A Versatile Building Block for Stable Pentacene Derivatives

(2011) Hemi Qu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Synthesis and Characterization of 2,8-Diazaperylene-1,3,7,9-tetraone, a New Anthracene Diimide Containing Six-Membered Imide Rings

(2011) Ali Reza Mohebbi et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Direct Laser Writing of Complementary Logic Gates and Lateral p-n Diodes in a Solution-Processible Monolithic Organic Semiconductor

(2010) Jean Charles Ribierre et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Rylene and Related Diimides for Organic Electronics

(2010) Xiaowei Zhan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

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

(2010) Daniel T. Chase 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

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

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

Chiral nanoribbons based on doubly-linked oligo-perylene bisimides

(2010) Yonggang Zhen et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Singlet Fission

(2010) Millicent B. Smith et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Molecular Design and Synthetic Approaches to Electron-Transporting Organic Transistor Semiconductors†

(2010) Byung Jun Jung et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Soluble and Stable Near-Infrared Dyes Based on Polycyclic Aromatics

(2010) Chongjun Jiao et al.   CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Synthetic Chemistry of Acenes and Heteroacenes

(2010) Hemi Qu et al.   CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

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

((Alkyloxy)carbonyl)cyanomethylene-Substituted Thienoquinoidal Compounds: a New Class of Soluble n-Channel Organic Semiconductors for Air-Stable Organic Field-Effect Transistors

(2010) Yuki Suzuki et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of Large, Stable Colloidal Graphene Quantum Dots with Tunable Size

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

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

Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of a Persistent Nonacene Derivative

(2010) Irvinder Kaur 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

Large, Solution-Processable Graphene Quantum Dots as Light Absorbers for Photovoltaics

(2010) Xin Yan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Soluble and Stable Zethrenebis(dicarboximide) and Its Quinone

(2010) Zhe Sun et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Synthesis and Stability of Soluble Hexacenes

(2010) Balaji Purushothaman et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Fused Bispentacenequinone and Its Unexpected Michael Addition

(2010) Xiaojie Zhang et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

A Stable Heptacene Derivative Substituted With Electron-Deficient Trifluoromethylphenyl and Triisopropylsilylethynyl Groups

(2010) Hemi Qu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Tetradehydrodinaphtho[10]annulene and its transformation into zethrene: A hitherto unknown dehydroannulene and a forgotten aromatic hydrocarbon

(2010) Rui Umeda et al.   PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

Emergence of magnetism in graphene materials and nanostructures

(2010) Oleg V Yazyev   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Synthesis of functionalized tetracene dicarboxylic imides

(2010) Jun Yin et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Large π-Aromatic Molecules as Potential Sensitizers for Highly Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

(2009) Hiroshi Imahori et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Resonance Balance Shift in Stacks of Delocalized Singlet Biradicals

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

Air-stable n-channel single-crystal transistors with negligible threshold gate voltage

(2009) M. Yamagishi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Low-voltage operation of n-type organic field-effect transistors with ionic liquid

(2009) T. Uemura et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Air-stable solution-processed ambipolar organic field-effect transistors based on a dicyanomethylene-substituted terheteroquinoid derivative

(2009) Sayuri Handa et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

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

(2009) Dumitru Ghereg et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Alkylated 2,6-Bis(dicyanomethylene)-2,6-dihydrobenzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophenes: New Soluble n-Channel Organic Semiconductors for Air-stable OFETs

(2009) Tomoya Kashiki et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Bisanthracene Bis(dicarboxylic imide)s as Soluble and Stable NIR Dyes

(2009) Jun Hong Yao et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

A Cruciform 6,6′-Dipentacenyl: Synthesis, Solid-State Packing and Applications in Thin-Film Transistors

(2009) Xiaojie Zhang et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Quinoidal Oligothiophenes: Towards Biradical Ground-State Species

(2009) Rocío Ponce Ortiz et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Molecular spintronics and quantum computing

(2009)   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Exploiting Substituent Effects for the Synthesis of a Photooxidatively Resistant Heptacene Derivative

(2009) Irvinder Kaur et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis, Stability, and Photochemistry of Pentacene, Hexacene, and Heptacene: A Matrix Isolation Study

(2009) Rajib Mondal et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Bis-N-Annulated Quaterrylene: An Approach to Processable Graphene Nanoribbons

(2009) Yan Li et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Physical Properties of 7,14-Disubstituted Pentacene-5,12-diones Containing a Methylenequinoid Structure

(2009) Jun-ichi Nishida et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

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

(2009) Kai Zhang et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Highly Regiospecific Synthetic Approach to Monobay-Functionalized Perylene Bisimide and Di(perylene bisimide)

(2009) Yonggang Zhen 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

From Ambi- to Unipolar Behavior in Discotic Dye Field-Effect Transistors

(2008) Hoi Nok Tsao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

The Most Stable and Fully Characterized Functionalized Heptacene

(2008) Doris Chun et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

Functional Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes

(2008) Kazuki Kiyose  et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

Theoretical study of one-photon and two-photon absorption properties of perylene tetracarboxylic derivatives

(2008) Yang Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Fully Conjugated Tri(perylene bisimides): An Approach to the Construction ofn-Type Graphene Nanoribbons

(2008) Hualei Qian et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Copper-Mediated Domino Process for the Synthesis of Tetraiodinated Di(perylene bisimide)

(2008) Yubai Shi et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Magnetic Correlations at Graphene Edges: Basis for Novel Spintronics Devices

(2008) Oleg V. Yazyev et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Near-Infrared Fluorescent Materials for Sensing of Biological Targets

(2008) Carrie Amiot et al.   SENSORS

The Larger Acenes: Versatile Organic Semiconductors

(2007) John E. Anthony   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION