Iptycene is a class of 3D, rigid, and arene‐rich frameworks and has been incorporated into
photoactive π‐systems for a variety of purposes, including tuning interchromophore …

Structural designs combining oligoparaphenylene‐derived nanohoops with other functional
organic building blocks should lead to novel molecular architectures with intriguing …

BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, o-xylene, m-xylene, and p-xylene) represents a
group of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and constitutes a great threat to human health …

Patchy particles with novel architectures and diverse applications have attracted significant
attention in recent years. Nevertheless, the synthesis of well-defined nanosized patchy …

A series of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) based on zinc ions and two triptycene ligands
of different size have been synthesized under solvothermal conditions. Structural analyses …

The class of 3, 3′-diaryl substituted tetranaphthobisazepinium bromides has found wide
application as highly efficient C 2-symmetrical phase-transfer catalysts (PTCs, Maruoka type …

Summary This Chapter Contains Sections titled: Introduction General Nucleophilic
Substitution The S NAr Mechanism Meisenheimer and Related Complexes Benzyne and …

Frontier molecular orbitals (FMOs) have played a critical role in predicting
reactivity/selectivity of pericyclic reactions. Here we show that the structurally similar …

Abstract The Diels–Alder (DA) reaction of diacenaphtheno [1, 2-b; 1′, 2′-d] thiophene (1a)
with benzyne affords 1: 1 and 1: 2 adducts, 7 and 8, in 47 and 11% yields. An X-ray …