Unique properties and emerging applications of carbolong metallaaromatics

M Luo, D Chen, Q Li, H Xia - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Aromatic compounds are important in synthetic chemistry, biomedicines, and
materials science. As a special type of aromatic complex, transition-metal-based …

Access to tetracyclic aromatics with bridgehead metals via metalla-click reactions

Z Lu, Q Zhu, Y Cai, Z Chen, K Zhuo, J Zhu, H Zhang… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The never-ending pursuits for exploring aromatic molecular architectures result in the large
libraries of aromatics with fascinating structures, which have greatly broadened the scope of …

A Metal‐Bridged Tricyclic Aromatic System: Synthesis of Osmium Polycyclic Aromatic Complexes

C Zhu, Q Zhu, J Fan, J Zhu, X He, XY Cao… - Angewandte …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aromaticity is one of the most important concepts in organic chemistry. A variety of metalla‐
aromatic compounds have been recently prepared and in most of those examples, the metal …

Metallaaromatics Containing Main‐group Heteroatoms

H Wang, X Zhou, H Xia - Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Metallaaromatics are metallacycles that are derived from the formal replacement of a carbon
atom in the framework of organic aromatics with a metal fragment. As an important subclass …

Metallapentalenofurans and Lactone‐Fused Metallapentalynes

Z Lu, C Zhu, Y Cai, J Zhu, Y Hua, Z Chen… - … A European Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Metalla‐aromatics are attractive species because they exhibit the properties of both
organometallics and aromatics. Reported metal‐bridged polycyclic aromatic complexes, as …

The chemistry of aromatic osmacycles

XY Cao, Q Zhao, Z Lin, H Xia - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Aromatic compounds, such as benzene and its derivatives, porphyrins, fullerenes, carbon
nanotubes, and graphene, have numerous applications in biomedicine, materials science …

Carbolong chemistry: a story of carbon chain ligands and transition metals

C Zhu, H Xia - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The construction of metal–carbon bonds is one of the most important issues of
organometallic chemistry. However, the chelation of polydentate ligands to a metal via …

Spiro metalla-aromatics of Pd, Pt, and Rh: synthesis and characterization

Y Zhang, J Wei, Y Chi, X Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Since the concept of aromaticity represents one of the most fundamental principles in
chemistry, the search for unprecedented and exciting aromatic systems, therefore, continues …

Molecular/polymeric metallaynes and related molecules: Solar cell materials and devices

L Xu, CL Ho, L Liu, WY Wong - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Energy remains one of the great challenges for the world. There is a considerable interest in
developing renewable energy resources and improving the technologies for energy …

CCCCC pentadentate chelates with planar Möbius aromaticity and unique properties

C Zhu, C Yang, Y Wang, G Lin, Y Yang, X Wang… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The coordinating atoms in polydentate chelates are primarily heteroatoms. We present the
first examples of pentadentate chelates with all binding atoms of the chelating agent being …