Using individual molecules as conducting bridges for electrons offers opportunities when
investigating quantum phenomena that are not readily accessible from experiments …

Creating functional electrical circuits using individual or ensemble molecules, often termed
as “molecular-scale electronics”, not only meets the increasing technical demands of the …

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Conspectus The formation and study of molecules that model the sp-hybridized carbon
allotrope, carbyne, is a challenging field of synthetic physical organic chemistry. The target …

Besides graphite and diamond, the solid allotropes of carbon in sp2 and sp3 hybridization,
the possible existence of a third allotrope based on the sp-carbon linear chain, the carbyne …

Polyynes are chains of sp 1 carbon atoms with alternating single and triple bonds. As they
become longer, they evolve towards carbyne, the 1D allotrope of carbon, and they become …

Active metal template Glaser coupling has been used to synthesize a series of rotaxanes
consisting of a polyyne, with up to 24 contiguous sp-hybridized carbon atoms, threaded …

Extended conjugated polyynes provide models for the elusive sp carbon polymer carbyne,
but progress has been hampered by numerous synthetic challenges. Stabilities appear to be …

New strategies for synthesizing polyyne polyrotaxanes are being developed as an approach
to stable carbyne “insulated molecular wires”. Here we report an active metal template route …

The cyclocarbons constitute a family of molecular carbon allotropes consisting of rings of two-
coordinate atoms. Their high reactivities make them difficult to study, but there has been …