Curved polyaromatic compounds are comprised of hydrocarbon rings with non-equivalent bond lengths or bond angles. Due to this structural inhomogeneity, these compounds are often referred to as “bowl-shaped” due to their curvature, resulting in distinct electronic, optical, and physical properties. Compared to their planar counterparts, these molecules have limited aromaticity, modified reactivity, and significant dipole moments and chirality.
Novel non-planar polyaromatics, especially those in which the physicochemical properties are rationally modulated through control of the structure, have applications in areas like catalysis and molecular devices. Thus, the present Research Topic spotlights new or improved and scaleable syntheses of these compounds and their potential contributions to electronics and materials science.
The goal of this Research Topic is to bring together papers describing the latest advances in the chemical synthesis, properties and uses for the broadly defined class of non-planar (curved) polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Papers describing new techniques for isolation and purification of such compounds are also highly encouraged.
We welcome original research, reviews, and perspective papers on the following themes:
-improvements in efficiency and scaleability of the syntheses
-the discovery of new uses and/or new properties
-more efficient methods for purification and analysis of these materials
-supramolecular assemblies; e.g. discrete bilayer (and some multilayer) formation of curved nanographenes in solution wherein the layers are stabilized primarily through dispersion and stacking interactions
Keywords:
optoelectronic materials, curved polyarenes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, non-planar nanographenes, helical nanographenes, helicenes, supramolecular assembly, buckybowls, bent cyclophanes, twisted acenes/arenes, molecular belts
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Curved polyaromatic compounds are comprised of hydrocarbon rings with non-equivalent bond lengths or bond angles. Due to this structural inhomogeneity, these compounds are often referred to as “bowl-shaped” due to their curvature, resulting in distinct electronic, optical, and physical properties. Compared to their planar counterparts, these molecules have limited aromaticity, modified reactivity, and significant dipole moments and chirality.
Novel non-planar polyaromatics, especially those in which the physicochemical properties are rationally modulated through control of the structure, have applications in areas like catalysis and molecular devices. Thus, the present Research Topic spotlights new or improved and scaleable syntheses of these compounds and their potential contributions to electronics and materials science.
The goal of this Research Topic is to bring together papers describing the latest advances in the chemical synthesis, properties and uses for the broadly defined class of non-planar (curved) polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Papers describing new techniques for isolation and purification of such compounds are also highly encouraged.
We welcome original research, reviews, and perspective papers on the following themes:
-improvements in efficiency and scaleability of the syntheses
-the discovery of new uses and/or new properties
-more efficient methods for purification and analysis of these materials
-supramolecular assemblies; e.g. discrete bilayer (and some multilayer) formation of curved nanographenes in solution wherein the layers are stabilized primarily through dispersion and stacking interactions
Keywords:
optoelectronic materials, curved polyarenes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, non-planar nanographenes, helical nanographenes, helicenes, supramolecular assembly, buckybowls, bent cyclophanes, twisted acenes/arenes, molecular belts
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.