Phenalenyl radical: Smallest polycyclic odd alternant hydrocarbon present in the graphene sheet

J Ahmed, SK Mandal - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phenalenyl, a zigzag-edged odd alternant hydrocarbon unit can be found in the graphene
nanosheet. Hückel molecular orbital calculations indicate the presence of a nonbonding …

Pushing the limits of acene chemistry: The recent surge of large acenes

C Tönshoff, HF Bettinger - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Acenes, consisting of linearly fused benzene rings, are an important fundamental class of
organic compounds with various applications. Hexacene is the largest acene that was …

Forever young: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as model cases for structural and optical studies

R Rieger, K Müllen - Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are popular research subjects due to their high
stability, their rigid planar structure, and their characteristic optical spectra. The recent …

Clar's Aromatic π‐Sextet Rule for the Construction of Red Multiple Resonance Emitter

H Chen, M Du, C Qu, Q Jin, Z Tao, R Ji… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the proliferation of multiple resonance (MR) materials in the blue to green spectral
ranges, red MR emitters remain scarce in the literature, an area that certainly warrants …

Role of Kekulé and non-Kekulé structures in the radical character of alternant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a TAO-DFT study

CN Yeh, JD Chai - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We investigate the role of Kekulé and non-Kekulé structures in the radical character of
alternant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) using thermally-assisted-occupation …

Claromatic carbon nanostructures

AT Balaban, DJ Klein - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2009 - ACS Publications
Eric Clar's qualitative ideas for benzenoids are described in application to various novel
nanostructures: graphene, edges in graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanocones, and …

How reliable is DFT in predicting relative energies of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon isomers? comparison of functionals from different rungs of jacob's ladder

A Karton - Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Density functional theory (DFT) is the only quantum‐chemical avenue for calculating
thermochemical/kinetic properties of large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) such as …

Fate of the open-shell singlet ground state in the experimentally accessible acenes: A quantum Monte Carlo study

N Dupuy, M Casula - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
By means of the Jastrow correlated antisymmetrized geminal power (JAGP) wave function
and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, we study the ground state properties of the …

On the importance of Clar structures of polybenzenoid hydrocarbons as revealed by the π-contribution to the electron localization function

J Zhu, C Dahlstrand, JR Smith, S Villaume, H Ottosson - Symmetry, 2010 - mdpi.com
The degree of π-electron (de) localization and aromaticity of a series of polybenzenoid
hydrocarbons (PBHs) has been analyzed through the π-contribution to the electron …

Intramolecular ferromagnetic coupling in bis-oxoverdazyl and bis-thioxoverdazyl diradicals with polyacene spacers

D Bhattacharya, S Shil, A Misra, DJ Klein - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2010 - Springer
We predict the intramolecular exchange coupling constant (J) for 10 different oxo-and thioxo-
verdazyl-based hi-spin ground-state diradicals with linear polyacene couplers of varying …