Water-soluble host–guest complexes between fullerenes and a sugar-functionalized tribenzotriquinacene assembling to microspheres

• Si-Yuan Liu,
• Xin-Rui Wang,
• Man-Ping Li,
• Wen-Rong Xu and
• Dietmar Kuck

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2551–2561, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.207

• equivalents of TBTQ-(OG)6, while the maximum solubility of C70 was about 0.17 mg/mL. Raman spectroscopy has proven to be a useful tool for the characterization of carbon nanomaterials [51][52]. The Raman spectra of TBTQ-(OG)6, C60 and TBTQ-(OG)6 C60 are displayed in Figure 5. The TBTQ-(OG)6 shows a weak peak

A systematic review on silica-, carbon-, and magnetic materials-supported copper species as efficient heterogeneous nanocatalysts in “click” reactions

• Pezhman Shiri and
• Jasem Aboonajmi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 551–586, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.52

• in HCl/H2O using 0.1 mol % of Cu@PyIm–SBA-15 (69, Scheme 12). Copper anchored on functionalized carbon materials: efficient and recyclable catalysts for CuAAC reactions Carbon nanomaterials have attracted the interest of researchers due to the high electrical and thermal conductivities, low

• and capable to perform over a wide temperature range, increases the attractiveness of carbon nanomaterials [56]. Carbon materials have been used in different areas, including water purification, gas separation, fuel cells, photocatalysis, catalyst supports, etc. [57][58][59][60][61][62]. Different

• types of carbon nanomaterials, including a) zero-dimensional nanoparticles (NPs), b) one-dimensional nanotubes, c) two-dimensional graphene sheets, and d) three-dimensional mesoporous carbon have been reported in the literature [63]. In this regard, various functionalized carbon nanomaterials were

One hundred years of benzotropone chemistry

• Arif Dastan,
• Haydar Kilic and
• Nurullah Saracoglu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1120–1180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.98

Detonation nanodiamonds biofunctionalization and immobilization to titanium alloy surfaces as first steps towards medical application

• Juliana P. L. Gonçalves,
• Afnan Q. Shaikh,
• Manuela Reitzig,
• Daria A. Kovalenko,
• Jan Michael,
• René Beutner,
• Gianaurelio Cuniberti,
• Dieter Scharnweber and
• Jörg Opitz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2765–2773, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.293

• substrate. Keywords: biofunctionalization; carbon-nanomaterials; detonation nanodiamond; electrochemical immobilization; surface modification; titanium alloy; Introduction Detonation nanodiamonds (DND) are a promising carbon-derived nanoscale material, which has been investigated since some decades due to

Synthesis of nanodiamond derivatives carrying amino functions and quantification by a modified Kaiser test

• Gerald Jarre,
• Steffen Heyer,
• Elisabeth Memmel,
• Thomas Meinhardt and
• Anke Krueger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2729–2737, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.288

• wet-chemical quantification method in cases where other techniques like elemental analysis fail due to unfavourable combustion behaviour of the analyte or other impediments. Keywords: amino groups; carbon nanomaterials; Diels–Alder reaction; Kaiser test; nanodiamond; pyrazine; Introduction Surface

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

• of understanding the properties and chemistry of carbon nanomaterials has opened a whole new world of applications for nanomaterials in general. The reliable production of a material represents a necessary requirement for the development of a research field. By now, all types of carbon nanomaterials

• , catalysis, electronic and optoelectronic as well as biomedical applications. The present Thematic Series attempts to showcase the diversity in the field of carbon nanomaterials and carbon-rich compounds and to emphasize the links between the different classes of materials. Contributions from synthetic

Aryl substitution of pentacenes

• Andreas R. Waterloo,
• Anna-Chiara Sale,
• Dan Lehnherr,
• Frank Hampel and
• Rik R. Tykwinski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1692–1705, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.178

• unsymmetrical substitution on the solid-state packing of the pentacene derivatives. The obtained results add to our ability to better predict substitution patterns that might be helpful for designing new semiconductors for use in solid-state devices. Keywords: carbon-nanomaterials; organic semiconductor

Improving the reactivity of phenylacetylene macrocycles toward topochemical polymerization by side chains modification

• Simon Rondeau-Gagné,
• Jules Roméo Néabo,
• Maxime Daigle,
• Katy Cantin and
• Jean-François Morin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1613–1619, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.167

• the xerogel state to form polydiacetylenes (PDAs), leading to a significant enhancement of the polymerization yields. The organogels and the PDAs were characterized using Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Keywords: carbon nanomaterials; organogels

Homochiral BINOL-based macrocycles with π-electron-rich, electron-withdrawing or extended spacing units as receptors for C₆₀

• Marco Caricato,
• Silvia Díez González,
• Idoia Arandia Ariño and
• Dario Pasini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1308–1316, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.132

• cyclic adducts exhibit recognition properties towards C60 in toluene solutions (up to log Ka = 3.2) with variable stoichiometries and variable intensities of the charge-tranfer band upon complexation. Keywords: BINOL; C60; carbon nanomaterials; carbon nanostructures; chirality; macrocycles; sensors

Site-selective covalent functionalization at interior carbon atoms and on the rim of circumtrindene, a C₃₆H₁₂ open geodesic polyarene

• Hee Yeon Cho,
• Ronald B. M. Ansems and
• Lawrence T. Scott

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 956–968, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.94

• reactions and to probe the magnetic environment of the concave/convex space around the hydrocarbon bowl. For both classes of functionalization, computational results are reported to complement the experimental observations. Keywords: Bingel–Hirsch reaction; buckybowl; carbon nanomaterials; cyclopropanation

Columnar/herringbone dual crystal packing of pyrenylsumanene and its photophysical properties

• Binod Babu Shrestha,
• Shuhei Higashibayashi and
• Hidehiro Sakurai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 841–847, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.80

• emission with high quantum yield (0.82) was observed for pyrenylsumanene in solution, while excimer-type red-shifted emission was evident in the crystalline phase. Keywords: carbon nanomaterials; columnar crystal packing; fluorescence; herringbone; pyrenylsumanene; Introduction Buckybowls – bowl-shaped

Thermodynamically stable [4 + 2] cycloadducts of lanthanum-encapsulated endohedral metallofullerenes

• Yuta Takano,
• Yuki Nagashima,
• M. Ángeles Herranz,
• Nazario Martín and
• Takeshi Akasaka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 714–721, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.65

• metallofullerene derivatives for the use in material science. Keywords: carbon nanomaterials; dynamic NMR; endofullerenes; La2@C80; La@C82; sultine; Introduction Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) are a family of nanocarbons, which encapsulated one or more metal atoms inside a hollow carbon cage [1][2][3][4

Polyglycerol-functionalized nanodiamond as a platform for gene delivery: Derivatization, characterization, and hybridization with DNA

• Li Zhao,
• Yuki Nakae,
• Hongmei Qin,
• Tadamasa Ito,
• Takahide Kimura,
• Hideto Kojima,
• Lawrence Chan and
• Naoki Komatsu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 707–713, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.64

• confirmed by gel retardation assay that ND-PG-Arg8 and ND-PG-Lys8 with higher zeta potential hybridized with plasmid DNA (pDNA) through electrostatic attraction, making them promising as nonviral vectors for gene delivery. Keywords: carbon-nanomaterials; click chemistry; DNA; gene delivery; nanodiamond

Tuning the interactions between electron spins in fullerene-based triad systems

• Maria A. Lebedeva,
• Thomas W. Chamberlain,
• E. Stephen Davies,
• Bradley E. Thomas,
• Martin Schröder and
• Andrei N. Khlobystov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 332–343, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.31

• -fullerene spacing. The shorter oxalate-bridged triads exhibit stronger spin–spin coupling with triplet character, while in the longer terephthalate-bridged triads the intramolecular spin–spin coupling is significantly reduced. Keywords: carbon nanomaterials; electrochemistry; EPR; fullerene dimers