The grossly warped nanographene has interesting optical and electronic properties © NPG
A new family of nanocarbons has emerged with the growth of the first non-planar nanographene. Chemists from Boston College, US, and Nagoya University, Japan successfully synthesised a grossly warped nanographene by embedding non-hexagonal rings into a nanographene subunit. The unique structure was found to have optical and electronic properties distinct from other all-carbon families. An ability to control the degree of distortion with odd-numbered rings could be a potential means of developing tailor-made graphene for future optoelectronic devices
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Herb Brown favoured rapidly equilibrating classical enantiomers of the 2-norbornyl cation
Winstein proposed the nonclassical structure of the 2-norbornyl cation, now shown to be correct
After more than 60 years, crystals of the 2-norbornyl cation have finally put its ‘nonclassical’ structure, with a pentacoordinate carbon, beyond doubt
German scientists have solved the long-sought crystal structure of an ion at the frontline of a war of interpretation that raged for years. Karsten Meyer from Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen and his teammates have ended a 64 year wait for this most definitive evidence of ‘nonclassical’ 2-norbornyl carbocation structures. ‘The crystallography was a tour-de-force,’ Meyer tells Chemistry World. ‘The procedure is insane – it put us through torture.
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