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Chemical Communications

Stepwise reduction of a corannulene-based helical molecular nanographene with Na metal†

Zheng Zhou, ORCID logo ab   Yikun Zhu, ORCID logo a   Jesús M. Fernández-García, ORCID logo c   Zheng Wei, ORCID logo a   Israel Fernández, ORCID logo *c   Marina A. Petrukhina ORCID logo *a  and  Nazario Martín ORCID logo *cd  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York Albany, NY 12222, USA
E-mail: mpetrukhina@albany.edu

b School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 4800 Cao’an Road, Shanghai 201804, China

c Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
E-mail: israel@quim.ucm.es, nazmar@quim.ucm.es

d IMDEA-Nanociencia, C/Faraday, 9, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain

Abstract

The chemical reduction of a corannulene-based molecular nanographene, C76H64 (1), with Na metal in the presence of 18-crown-6 afforded the doubly-reduced state of 1. This reduction provokes a distortion of the helicene core and has a significant impact on the aromaticity of the system.

Graphical abstract: Stepwise reduction of a corannulene-based helical molecular nanographene with Na metal

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC00971D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 Feb 2022
Accepted
23 Mar 2022
First published
30 Mar 2022

Chem. Commun., 2022,58, 5574-5577

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Stepwise reduction of a corannulene-based helical molecular nanographene with Na metal

Z. Zhou, Y. Zhu, J. M. Fernández-García, Z. Wei, I. Fernández, M. A. Petrukhina and N. Martín, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 5574 DOI: 10.1039/D2CC00971D

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