Synfacts 2024; 20(01): 0023
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1772909
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products

Radical-Mediated Graphene Nanoribbon Synthesis

Contributor(s):
Dahui Zhao
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Zhizhe Liu
Shen T, Zou Y, Hou X, Wei H, Ren L, Jiao L, Wu J. * Joint School of National University of Singapore and Tianjin University, Fuzhou, P. R. of China and National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bis-peri-dinaphtho-rylenes: Facile Synthesis via Radical-Mediated Coupling Reactions and their Distinctive Electronic Structures.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023;
62: e202311928
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202311928.
 

Significance

The precise syntheses of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) warrant more concise and efficient strategies. In this report, radical coupling is demonstrated to be an effective approach to stitching C–C bonds between aromatic fragments and extending the GNR frameworks.


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Comment

Both intra- and intermolecular C–C coupling of in situ generated radicals are shown viable with the developed method for accomplishing aromatic annulation, while the intermolecular reaction may give rise to regioisomers due to π-conjugated spin delocalization.


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Publication History

Article published online:
08 December 2023

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