Macrocyclic arenes including calixarenes, resorcinarenes, cyclotriveratrylene, pillararenes
and so on have emerged as highly attractive synthetic macrocyclic hosts due to their unique …

The creation and development of new forms of nanocarbons have fundamentally
transformed the scientific landscape in the past three decades. As new members of the …

Technologies for the creation of topological carbon nanostructures have greatly advanced
synthetic organic chemistry and materials science. Although simple molecular nanocarbons …

With the serendipitous discovery of crown ethers by Pedersen more than half a century ago
and the subsequent introduction of host–guest chemistry and supramolecular chemistry by …

Conspectus The discovery and creation of new forms of carbon have always transformed the
scientific landscape. For example, the discoveries of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) …

The creation and development of carbon nanomaterials promoted material science
significantly. Bottom-up synthesis has emerged as an efficient strategy to synthesize …

The electronic structure of quasi-one-dimensional graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) is closely
related to their width, boundary configuration and heteroatomic doping because of the …

New forms of molecular nanocarbon particularly looped polyarenes adopting various
topologies contribute to the fundamental science and practical applications. Here we report …

Conspectus Understanding and harnessing the properties of nanoscale molecular entities
are considered as new frontiers in basic chemistry. In this regard, synthetic nanographene …

We report the synthesis and chiroptical properties of novel chiral carbon nanorings Sp‐/Rp‐
[12] PCPP containing a planar chiral [2.2] PCP unit, and demonstrate that Sp‐/Rp‐[12] PCPP …