Homogeneous and heterogeneous gold catalysis for materials science

CM Hendrich, K Sekine, T Koshikawa… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Often stoichiometric amounts of gold find use in materials science; occasionally gold is even
used as a support. This review discusses the contributions of gold catalysis, both …

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 …

Structure and Electronics of a Series of CAAC-Stabilized Diboron-Doped Acenes from 1, 4-Diboranaphthalene to 6, 13-Diborapentacene

M Dietz, M Arrowsmith, K Drepper… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This combined experimental and theoretical study examines the influence of acene
elongation, boron atom position, and acene substitution pattern on the structure and …

Decacene: on‐surface generation

J Krüger, F García, F Eisenhut, D Skidin… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Acenes are intriguing molecules with unique electronic properties. The difficulties in their
preparation owing to low stability under ambient conditions are apparent because …

Higher acenes by on‐surface dehydrogenation: from heptacene to undecacene

R Zuzak, R Dorel, M Kolmer… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A unified approach to the synthesis of the series of higher acenes up to previously
unreported undecacene has been developed through the on‐surface dehydrogenation of …

Synthesis of polyacene by using a metal–organic framework

T Kitao, T Miura, R Nakayama, Y Tsutsui, YS Chan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The acene series, an important class of linearly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, are of
interest owing to their unique physicochemical features. With an increase in the number of …

On-surface light-induced generation of higher acenes and elucidation of their open-shell character

JI Urgel, S Mishra, H Hayashi, J Wilhelm… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Acenes are an important class of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which have recently
gained exceptional attention due to their potential as functional organic semiconductors …

Recent Progress in High Linearly Fused Polycyclic Conjugated Hydrocarbons (PCHs, n > 6) with Well‐Defined Structures

W Chen, F Yu, Q Xu, G Zhou, Q Zhang - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons (PCHs) and their analogues have gained
great progress in the fields of organic photoelectronic materials, the in‐depth study on …

Unusual stabilization of larger acenes and heteroacenes

M Müller, L Ahrens, V Brosius, J Freudenberg… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The larger acenes and heteroacenes (> pentacenes) are attractive, yet sensitive materials;
several strategies were developed to stabilize such species.“Classic” approaches employ …

Exploring Structure–Property Relations of B, S-Doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons through the Trinity of Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Theory

T Jin, L Kunze, S Breimaier, M Bolte… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are prominent lead structures for organic
optoelectronic materials. This work describes the synthesis of three B, S-doped PAHs with …