Nature Communications (May 2021)

Oxidative cyclo-rearrangement of helicenes into chiral nanographenes

  • Chengshuo Shen,
  • Guoli Zhang,
  • Yongle Ding,
  • Na Yang,
  • Fuwei Gan,
  • Jeanne Crassous,
  • Huibin Qiu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22992-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Nanographenes are emerging as a distinctive class of functional materials for electronic and optical devices. Here, the authors develop a facile strategy to recompose helicenes into a variety of chiral nanographenes through an oxidative cyclo-rearrangement reaction.