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One‐Step Conversion of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Bay Regions into Unsubstituted Benzene Rings: A Reagent for the Low‐Temperature, Metal‐Free Growth of Single‐Chirality Carbon Nanotubes
Author(s) -
Fort Eric H.,
Scott Lawrence T.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201002859
Subject(s) - carbon nanotube , acetylene , benzene , cycloaddition , chirality (physics) , hydrocarbon , reagent , polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon , aromatic hydrocarbon , chemistry , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , catalysis , physics , chiral symmetry breaking , engineering , quantum mechanics , quark , nambu–jona lasinio model
A tube ride : The controlled chemical synthesis of uniform, single‐walled carbon nanotubes from short hydrocarbon templates, such as aromatic belts and geodesic nanotube end‐caps, by a Diels–Alder cycloaddition/rearomatization strategy requires a potent “masked acetylene” capable of transforming hydrocarbon bay regions into new unsubstituted benzene rings in a single operation. Nitroethylene has been found to effect such benzannulations (see scheme).