Twisted Molecular Nanoribbons with up to 53 Linearly-Fused Rings

Rajeev K Dubey; Manuel Melle-Franco; Aurelio Mateo-Alonso

doi:10.1021/jacs.1c01849

Twisted Molecular Nanoribbons with up to 53 Linearly-Fused Rings

J Am Chem Soc. 2021 May 5;143(17):6593-6600. doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c01849. Epub 2021 Apr 20.

Authors

Rajeev K Dubey¹, Manuel Melle-Franco², Aurelio Mateo-Alonso^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Avenida de Tolosa 72, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.
² CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
³ Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48009 Bilbao, Spain.

PMID: 33876941
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c01849

Abstract

The synthesis of three molecular nanoribbons with a twisted aromatic framework is described. The largest one shows a 53 linearly fused rings backbone (12.9 nm) and 322 conjugated atoms in its aromatic core (C₂₉₆N₂₄S₂). This new family of nanoribbons shows extremely high molar absorptivities, reaching 986 100 M^-1 cm^-1, and red-emitting properties.