Synthetic chemists have developed robust methods to synthesize discrete molecules, linear
and branched polymers, and disordered cross-linked networks. However, two-dimensional …

During the last decade, interest on the growth and self-assembly of organic molecular
species on solid surfaces spread over the scientific community, largely motivated by the …

Using scanning probe microscopy techniques, at low temperatures and in ultrahigh vacuum,
individual molecules adsorbed on surfaces can be probed with ultrahigh resolution to …

Surface-assisted Ullmann coupling is the workhorse of on-surfaces synthesis. Among the
various couplings that were successfully transferred from solution to solid surfaces, Ullmann …

Acenes are intriguing molecules with unique electronic properties. The difficulties in their
preparation owing to low stability under ambient conditions are apparent because …

Conspectus In recent years, synthetic transformations based on aryne chemistry have
become particularly popular, mostly due to the spread of methods to generate these highly …

In this Review article pioneering work and recent achievements in the emerging research
area of on‐surface chemistry is discussed. On‐surface chemistry, sometimes also called two …

Surface-assisted Ullmann coupling is the workhorse of on-surface synthesis. Despite its
obvious relevance, many fundamental and mechanistic aspects remain elusive. To shed …

Polycyclic hydrocarbons have received great attention due to their potential role in organic
electronics and, for open-shell systems with unpaired electron densities, in spintronics and …

Organic open-shell compounds are extraordinarily attractive materials for their use in
molecular spintronics thanks to their long spin-relaxation times and structural flexibility …