Chemical principles of single-molecule electronics

TA Su, M Neupane, ML Steigerwald… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
The field of single-molecule electronics harnesses expertise from engineering, physics and
chemistry to realize circuit elements at the limit of miniaturization; it is a subfield of …

Reductive aromatization/dearomatization and elimination reactions to access conjugated polycyclic hydrocarbons, heteroacenes, and cumulenes

JL Marshall, D Lehnherr, BD Lindner… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Acenes, heteroacenes, conjugated polycyclic hydrocarbons, and polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (collectively referred to in this review as conjugated polycyclic molecules …

Tetra‐tert‐butyl‐s‐indacene is a Bond‐Localized C2h Structure and a Challenge for Computational Chemistry

LJ Karas, S Jalife, RV Viesser… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Whether tetra‐tert‐butyl‐s‐indacene is a symmetric D2h structure or a bond‐alternating C2h
structure remains a standing puzzle. Close agreement between experimental and computed …

Modulating paratropicity strength in diareno-fused antiaromatics

CK Frederickson, LN Zakharov… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Understanding and controlling the electronic structure of molecules is crucial when
designing and optimizing new organic semiconductor materials. We report the …

Interactions in starch co-gelatinized with phenolic compound systems: Effect of complexity of phenolic compounds and amylose content of starch

B Liu, F Zhong, W Yokoyama, D Huang, S Zhu… - Carbohydrate polymers, 2020 - Elsevier
Maize starches of different amylose contents were co-gelatinized with caffeic acid (CA),
quercetin (Qu) and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), respectively. The decomposition …

Highly-conducting molecular circuits based on antiaromaticity

S Fujii, S Marqués-González, JY Shin… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Aromaticity is a fundamental concept in chemistry. It is described by Hückel's rule that states
that a cyclic planar π-system is aromatic when it shares 4 n+ 2 π-electrons and antiaromatic …

Aromaticity decreases single-molecule junction conductance.

W Chen, H Li, JR Widawsky, C Appayee… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We have measured the conductance of single-molecule junctions created with three
different molecular wires using the scanning tunneling microscope-based break-junction …

The Impact of Antiaromatic Subunits in [4n+2] π-Systems: Bispentalenes with [4n+2] π-Electron Perimeters and Antiaromatic Character

J Cao, G London, O Dumele… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Three series of stable, neutral, π-extended bispentalene derivatives, with two pentalenes
fused to a central benzene or naphthalene moiety, have been prepared through a modified …

Engineering the HOMO–LUMO gap of indeno [1, 2-b] fluorene

R Casares, Á Martínez-Pinel… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
A direct, efficient and versatile strategy for the modulation of optoelectronic and magnetic
properties of indeno [1, 2-b] fluorene has been developed. 4-Substituted-2, 6 …

Synergistic modification of ultrasound and bamboo leaf flavonoid on the rheological properties, multi-scale structure, and in vitro digestibility of pea starch

R Hu, L Wu, X Liao, F Zhang, J Zheng - Food Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the effect of ultrasonic treatment (UT), bamboo leaf flavonoid (BLF), ultrasonic
treatment prior to bamboo leaf flavonoid (UT-BLF), and bamboo leaf flavonoid prior to the …