{"id":243815,"date":"2026-09-09T01:28:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/curved-nanographene-with-five-six-and-seven-membered-rings-synthesized-in-two-steps"},"modified":"2026-09-09T01:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:28:47","slug":"curved-nanographene-with-five-six-and-seven-membered-rings-synthesized-in-two-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/curved-nanographene-with-five-six-and-seven-membered-rings-synthesized-in-two-steps","title":{"rendered":"Curved nanographene with five-, six- and seven-membered rings synthesized in two steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/curved-nanographene-with-five-six-and-seven-membered-rings-synthesized-in-two-steps.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nanographenes can be considered molecular fragments of graphene, a 2D conductive material in which carbon atoms are connected in a honeycomb pattern. Because their electronic and photophysical properties vary depending on the size and shape of the molecule, nanographenes are expected to find applications in OLEDs, organic solar cells, organic field-effect transistors and more.<\/p>\n<p>For this, simple methods for synthesizing nanographenes that avoid complex multistep processes are desired. Now, a team of scientists from WPI-ITbM at Nagoya University and RIKEN has established a new two-step annulative \u03c0-extension (APEX) method that generates structurally diverse nanographenes. This research is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/anie.2205198\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanographenes can be considered molecular fragments of graphene, a 2D conductive material in which carbon atoms are connected in a honeycomb pattern. Because their electronic and photophysical properties vary depending on the size and shape of the molecule, nanographenes are expected to find applications in OLEDs, organic solar cells, organic field-effect transistors and more. For [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}