Recent advances in the synthesis and applications of macrocyclic arenes

XN Han, Y Han, CF Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Macrocyclic arenes including calixarenes, resorcinarenes, cyclotriveratrylene, pillararenes
and so on have emerged as highly attractive synthetic macrocyclic hosts due to their unique …

Aromatic hydrocarbon belts

QH Guo, Y Qiu, MX Wang, J Fraser Stoddart - Nature chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Aromatic hydrocarbon belts (AHCBs) have fascinated scientists for over half a century
because of their aesthetically appealing structures and potential applications in the field of …

Molecular carbons: How far can we go?

MW Wang, W Fan, X Li, Y Liu, Z Li, W Jiang, J Wu… - Acs Nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
The creation and development of carbon nanomaterials promoted material science
significantly. Bottom-up synthesis has emerged as an efficient strategy to synthesize …

Chemical synthesis of carbon nanorings and nanobelts

Y Li, H Kono, T Maekawa, Y Segawa… - Accounts of Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
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) …

Conjugated nanohoops incorporating donor, acceptor, hetero‐or polycyclic aromatics

M Hermann, D Wassy, B Esser - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the last 13 years several synthetic strategies were developed that provide access to [n]
cycloparaphenylenes ([n] CPPs) and related conjugated nanohoops. A number of potential …

Emergent behavior in nanoconfined molecular containers

W Liu, JF Stoddart - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
The expression of biological functions, such as enzyme catalysis, immune response, and
cargo transport in confined nanospaces, with very different physical and chemical …

Chiral carbon nanorings: synthesis, properties and hierarchical self‐assembly of chiral ternary complexes featuring a narcissistic chiral self‐recognition for chiral …

Y Fan, J He, L Liu, G Liu, S Guo, Z Lian, X Li… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Synthesis of a zigzag carbon nanobelt

KY Cheung, K Watanabe, Y Segawa, K Itami - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The structure-selective precise synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has been long sought
in materials science. The aromatic molecules corresponding to segment structures of CNTs …

Synthesis of a sidewall fragment of a (12, 0) carbon nanotube

Y Han, S Dong, J Shao, W Fan, C Chi - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Synthesis of a carbon nanobelt (CNB) is a very challenging task in organic chemistry.
Herein, we report the successful synthesis of an octabenzo [12] cyclacene based CNB (6) …

Synthesis and chiral resolution of twisted carbon nanobelts

W Fan, T Matsuno, Y Han, X Wang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Twisted carbon nanobelts could display persistent chirality, which is desirable for material
applications, but their synthesis is very challenging. Herein, we report the successful …