Construction of hexabenzocoronene-based chiral nanographenes

• Ranran Li,
• Di Wang,
• Shengtao Li and
• Peng An

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 736–751, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.54

• nanomaterials, the design, and construction of chiral nanographenes is a hot topic recently. As a classic nanographene unit, hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene generally serves as the building block for nanographene synthesis. This review summarizes the representative examples of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene-based

• ][26][27][28]. Meanwhile, the introduction of strain into polyaromatic systems to generate Gaussian curvature or twistedness offers an alternative approach to forming chiral NGs [14]. As a classic NG unit, hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (p-HBC), a D6h-symmetry, planar π-scaffold (Scheme 1), and its

Six-fold C–H borylation of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene

• Mai Nagase,
• Kenta Kato,
• Akiko Yagi,
• Yasutomo Segawa and
• Kenichiro Itami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 391–397, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.37

• , Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.16.37 Abstract Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC) is known to be a poorly soluble polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon for which direct functionalization methods have been very limited. Herein, the synthesis of hexaborylated HBC from unsubstituted HBC is described. Iridium

• calculations. The spectra revealed a bathochromic shift of absorption bands compared with unsubstituted HBC under the effect of the σ-donation of boryl groups. Keywords: C–H borylation; hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene; iridium catalyst; X-ray crystallography; Introduction Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs

• organic solvents greatly decreases due to the π–π interactions. Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC) is a notable compound investigated in the fields from synthetic chemistry to astrophysics among PAHs [4][8][9][10], and also known as a poorly soluble PAH [11]. Against the context of difficulty in

Star-shaped and linear π-conjugated oligomers consisting of a tetrathienoanthracene core and multiple diketopyrrolopyrrole arms for organic solar cells

• Hideaki Komiyama,
• Chihaya Adachi and
• Takuma Yasuda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1459–1466, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.142

• their extended dimensionality, in comparison to their linear analogues. Star-shaped π-conjugated molecules consisting of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene [8][9][10][11][12][13][14], pyrene [15][16][17], and triphenylamine [18][19][20][21][22][23] central cores have been developed as donor materials for BHJ

Selected synthetic strategies to cyclophanes

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Mukesh E. Shirbhate and
• Gopalkrushna T. Waghule

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1274–1331, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.142

• synthesized hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene cyclophane 201a–c. They studied their properties by carrying out differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), optical microscopy, wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXD), and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Tunneling spectroscopy reveals a diode-like behavior which