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Araceli G. Campaña

Atomically Precise Distorted Nanographenes: The Effect of Different Edge Functionalization on the Photophysical Properties down to the Femtosecond Scale

Nanographenes (NGs) have been attracting widespread interest since they combine peculiar properties of graphene with molecular features, such as bright visible photoluminescence. However, our understanding of the fundamental properties of NGs is still hampered by the high degree of heterogeneity usually characterizing most of these materials. In this context, NGs obtained by atomically precise synthesis routes represent optimal benchmarks to unambiguously relate their properties to well-defined structures. Here we investigate in deep detail the optical response of three curved hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC) derivatives obtained by atomically precise synthesis routes. They are constituted…

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Heptagon-Containing Nanographene Embedded into [10]Cycloparaphenylene

We report the synthesis and characterization of a novel type of nanohoop, consisting of a cycloparaphenylene derivative incorporating a curved heptagon-containing π-extended polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) unit. We demonstrate that this new macrocycle behaves as a supramolecular receptor of curved π-systems such as fullerenes C60 and C70, with remarkably large binding constants (ca. 107 M−1), as estimated by fluorescence measurements. Nanosecond and femtosecond spectroscopic analysis show that these host-guest complexes are capable of quasi-instantaneous charge separation upon photoexcitation, due to the ultrafast charge transfer from the macrocycle to the complexed fullerene. These r…

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Dibenzocycloheptatriene as end-group of Thiele and tetrabenzo-Chichibabin hydrocarbons

The authors are grateful for the financial support from: MICIU/FEDER/AEI, Spain (PG2018-101181-B-I00, PGC2018-095808B-I00, MAT2016-80826-R, FIP-2018-HECTIC-PTM, Prometeo2019/076 and the "Severo Ochoa" Programme for Centres of Excellence in R & D; SEV-2015-0496), the European Research Council (ERC) (677023), DGR (Catalunya) (2017-SGR-918), and SNSF (Switzerland, TS., PZ00P2_174175). We thank the CSIRC-Alhambra and SciCore (Basel, Switzerland) for supercomputing facilities and the Servei de RMN, UAB, for instrument time.

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CCDC 2012097: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

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CCDC 2237075: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

Related Article: Juan P. Mora-Fuentes, Marcos D. Codesal, Marco Reale, Carlos M. Cruz, Vicente G. Jiménez, Alice Sciortino, Marco Cannas, Fabrizio Messina, Victor Blanco, Araceli G. Campaña|2023|Angew.Chem.,Int.Ed.|62||doi:10.1002/anie.202301356

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CCDC 2012098: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

Related Article: Vicente G. Jiménez, Paula Mayorga-Burrezo, Victor Blanco, Vega Lloveras, Carlos J. Gómez-García, Tomáš Šolomek, Juan M. Cuerva, Jaume Veciana, Araceli G. Campaña|2020|Chem.Commun.|56|12813|doi:10.1039/D0CC04489J

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