On the aromaticity and photophysics of 1-arylbenzo[a]imidazo[5,1,2-cd]indolizines as bicolor fluorescent molecules for barium tagging in the study of double-beta decay of ¹³⁶Xe

• Eric Iván Velazco-Cabral,
• Fernando Auria-Luna,
• Juan Molina-Canteras,
• Miguel A. Vázquez,
• Iván Rivilla and
• Fernando P. Cossío

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1627–1638, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.126

• decoupling between the para-phenylene and benzo[a]imidazo[5,1,2-cd]indolizine components that results in a blue shift upon Ba2+ coordination. Keywords: aromaticity; DFT-TDDFT calculations; double-beta decay; fluorescent sensors; polycyclic arenes; Introduction Double beta-decay [1] is a radioactive decay

Synthesis, structure and π-expansion of tris(4,5-dehydro-2,3:6,7-dibenzotropone)

• Yongming Xiong,
• Xue Lin Ma,
• Shilong Su and
• Qian Miao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1–7, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.1

• , expanding its π-skeleton through the Barton–Kellogg and Scholl reactions led to the successful synthesis of a curved polycyclic arene containing three heptagons and two pentagons. Keywords: carbon schwarzites; polycyclic arenes; Scholl reaction; seven-membered carbocycle; Yamamoto coupling; Introduction

• definitively synthesized. The three-dimensional graphene-like carbons formed in a zeolite-template are the carbon forms that are the closest to carbon schwarzites so far [6][7]. Fragments of carbon schwarzites that retain their key structural characteristics are negatively curved polycyclic arenes [8][9

• recently showed that polymerizing negatively curved polycyclic arenes produced an amorphous covalent network. This network was able to mimic the structure and function of carbon schwarzites, serving as an anode material in lithium-ion batteries with high capacity [21]. Further exploration of bottom-up