Tightly stacked carbazole and 1,2:5,6–naphthalene bisimide units afforded a planar chiral hetero-cyclophane. The architecturally refined system, with strong charge-transfer interaction and enhanced s....

A carboxylic acid group introduced into the second coordination sphere of a Ru(bda) water oxidation catalyst forms a defined hydrogen bond within the catalytic cleft. This interaction locks the group...

A photofunctional coronene bisimide (CBI) has been equipped with two bulky terphenyl imide substituents that control self-assembly, restricting it to the formation of well-defined dimers with a remark...

Synthetic dye-based analogues of biomacromolecules often rely on simple dimers to model solid-state photofunctional behaviour. Now an iterative block-based coupling protocol has been developed that ge...

Supramolecular host–guest design in naphthalene bisimide liquid crystals activates charge-transfer emission and enables continuous tuning of color (511–685 nm) and lifetime, spanning prompt fluoresce...

Integration of Ru(bda) [bda = (2,2’-bipyridine)-6,6’-dicarboxylate] water oxidation catalysts together with dibenzofuran, dibenzothiophene, or carbazole heterocycles within macrocycles 1-3 affords str...

A key feature of the, so far only theoretically described, family of sp2 carbon allotropes called schwarzites is the negatively curved topology, which is introduced by the incorporation of heptagonal ...

A TBI with sterically demanding imide substituents self-assembles in solution into a defined helical tetramer π-stack. Both the monomer and the tetramer can form complexes with polycyclic aromatic gu....

Coronene bisimide (CBI) with its efficient intersystem crossing was used as a visible-light-absorbing photosensitizer. Different reactions, including cycloadditions and oxidations, were demonstrated ...

Herein, recent research on boron-containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (B-PAHs) is presented with particular emphasis on their synthesis. Covered compound classes include kinetically shielded, ...