Antiaromatic bisindeno-[n]thienoacenes with small singlet biradical characters: syntheses, structures and chain length dependent physical properties

An Antiaromatic Electrode-Active Material Enabling High Capacity and Stable Performance of Rechargeable Batteries

(2014) Ji-Young Shin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

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

Quinoidal diindenothienoacenes: synthesis and properties of new functional organic materials

(2014) Gabriel E. Rudebusch et al.   Chemical Science

Singlet Exciton Fission Photovoltaics

(2013) Jiye Lee et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Flexible Low-Voltage Organic Transistors with High Thermal Stability at 250 °C

(2013) Tomoyuki Yokota et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Temperature-Independent Transport in High-Mobility Dinaphtho-Thieno-Thiophene (DNTT) Single Crystal Transistors

(2013) Wei Xie et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

Solution-processable n-type and ambipolar semiconductors based on a fused cyclopentadithiophenebis(dicyanovinylene) core

(2013) Xueliang Shi et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

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

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

Delocalization-to-Localization Charge Transition in Diferrocenyl-Oligothienylene-Vinylene Molecular Wires as a Function of the Size by Raman Spectroscopy

(2012) Sandra Rodríguez González et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

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

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

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

Thienoacene-Based Organic Semiconductors

(2011) Kazuo Takimiya et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

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

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

Open-shell polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

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

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

Dianthra[2,3-b:2′,3′-f]thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (DATT): Synthesis, Characterization, and FET Characteristics of New π-Extended Heteroarene with Eight Fused Aromatic Rings

(2011) Kazuki Niimi 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

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

(2011) Yasushi Morita et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

From computational discovery to experimental characterization of a high hole mobility organic crystal

(2011) Anatoliy N. Sokolov et al.   Nature Communications

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

The longest quinoidal oligothiophene: A Raman story

(2010) Juanjuan Casado et al.   CHEMICAL RECORD

Singlet Fission

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

Selective Multiple Magnesiations of the Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene Scaffold

(2010) Thomas Kunz et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Synthetic Chemistry of Acenes and Heteroacenes

(2010) Hemi Qu et al.   CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

((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

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

Ambipolar Organic Field-Effect Transistors from Cross-Conjugated Aromatic Quaterthiophenes; Comparisons with Quinoidal Parent Materials

(2009) Rocío Ponce Ortiz et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Regioselective Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions and Metal-Halide Exchange Reactions of Tetrabromothiophene: Optimization, Scope and Limitations

(2009) Đǎng Thanh Tùng et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Resonance Balance Shift in Stacks of Delocalized Singlet Biradicals

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

Two-Photon Absorption and the Design of Two-Photon Dyes

(2009) Miłosz Pawlicki et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Quinoidal Oligothiophenes: Towards Biradical Ground-State Species

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

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

Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing and Spin Dynamics of Photoexcited Perylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide) Covalently Linked to a Nitroxide Radical at Fixed Distances

(2009) Emilie M. Giacobbe et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Spin routes in organic semiconductors

(2009) V. Alek Dediu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

(2009) Rui Umeda et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Metalation of Expanded Porphyrins: A Chemical Trigger Used To Produce Molecular Twisting and Möbius Aromaticity

(2007) Yasuo Tanaka et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Larger Acenes: Versatile Organic Semiconductors

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