Building complex carbon skeletons with ethynyl[2.2]paracyclophanes

• Ina Dix,
• Lidija Bondarenko,
• Peter G. Jones,
• Thomas Oeser and
• Henning Hopf

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2013–2020, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.209

• their usual spectroscopic and analytical data, the new cyclophanes 11, 12, 19, 20, 22, and 26 were characterized by X-ray structural analysis. Keywords: carbon-rich molecules; complex carbon scaffolds; cyclophanes; Glaser coupling; multibridged cyclophanes; X-ray analysis; Introduction Several years

Carbon nanomaterials

• Anke Krueger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1785–1786, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.186

• Keywords: carbon allotropes; carbon nanomaterials; carbon-rich molecules; The era of carbon nanomaterials has started with the first reports on fullerenes and related compounds in the mid-eighties, and a tremendous increase of the research activity in the field has been observed ever since. New classes of

• organic chemistry dealing with the formation and functionalization of carbon-rich molecules and from the area of functional nanomaterials illustrate the plethora of research activities. Obviously, such an issue will fail to present the field in its entirety. The sheer number of publications appearing