Advances in catalytic enantioselective synthesis of chiral helicenes and helicenoids

Y Wang, ZG Wu, F Shi - Chem Catalysis, 2022 - cell.com
Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of chiral helicenes and helicenoids has emerged as an
important area of research. In the efforts toward efficient and enantioselective synthesis of …

Diazulenylmethyl Cations with a Silicon Bridge: A π-Extended Cationic Motif to Form J-Aggregates with Near-Infrared Absorption and Emission

M Murai, M Abe, S Ogi… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We disclose a series of silicon-bridged diazulenylmethyl cations as stable and one-
dimensionally π-extended carbocations. Connecting nonbenzenoid azulenes to a …

The road to bis‐periazulene (cyclohepta[def]fluorene): Realizing one of the long‐standing dreams in nonalternant hydrocarbons

A Konishi, K Horii, M Yasuda - Journal of Physical Organic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The chemistry of nonalternant hydrocarbons has recently experienced a considerable
resurgence. As the relationship between naphthalene and azulene shows, an important …

Synthesis of a Dicyclohepta[a,g]heptalene‐Containing Polycyclic Conjugated Hydrocarbon and the Impact of Non‐Alternant Topologies

J Wang, FG Gámez, J Marín‐Beloqui… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Incorporating non‐hexagonal rings into polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons (PCHs) can
significantly affect their electronic and optoelectronic properties and chemical reactivities …

Synthesis of highly luminescent chiral nanographene

JK Li, XY Chen, WL Zhao, YL Guo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chiral nanographenes with both high fluorescence quantum yields (ΦF) and large
dissymmetry factors (glum) are essential to the development of circularly polarized …

Helical bilayer nonbenzenoid nanographene bearing a [10] helicene with two embedded heptagons

L Yang, YY Ju, MA Medel, Y Fu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The precision synthesis of helical bilayer nanographenes (NGs) with new topology is of
substantial interest because of their exotic physicochemical properties. However, helical …

Linear Nonalternant Isomers of Acenes Fusing Multiple Azulene Units

S Wang, M Tang, L Wu, L Bian, L Jiang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A modular approach to azulene building blocks was developed starting from readily
available aryl‐substituted cyclopentadiene and ortho‐haloaryl aldehyde by dehydration …

Synthesis of metalla-dual-azulenes with fluoride ion recognition properties

HC Liu, K Ruan, K Ma, J Fei, YM Lin, H Xia - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Azulene-based conjugated systems are of great interests due to their unusual structures and
photophysical properties. Incorporation of a transition metal into azulene skeleton presents …

Helical β‐isoindigo‐Based Chromophores with B− O− B Bridge: Facile Synthesis and Tunable Near‐Infrared Circularly Polarized Luminescence

Y Xu, Z Ni, Y Xiao, Z Chen, S Wang, L Gai… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is essential to create organic compounds that exhibit circularly polarized luminescence
(CPL) in the near‐infrared (NIR) range. Helicene‐type emitters possess appealing …

Cascade Synthesis of Benzotriazulene with Three Embedded Azulene Units and Large Stokes Shifts

Y Liang, S Wang, M Tang, L Wu, L Bian… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We report here the one‐pot synthesis of benzo [1, 2‐a: 3, 4‐a′: 5, 6‐a′′] triazulene
(BTA), wherein three azulene units are embedded through a tandem reaction comprising …