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Cycloparaphenylenes and their Biological Applications

Garrison, Anna (University of Oregon, 2022)

Looking inside the human body is a critical tool researchers and physicians need to explore the human species, navigate and discover new diseases, and look for new cures or therapies. It is impossible to visualize and ...
Development of a Nanohoop Rotaxane For Sensing Reactive Oxygen Species

Liao, Phyllis (University of Oregon, 2021)

Observing biological processes such as disease progression and gene expression require elaborate probes and sensors. In biomedical research, there is interest in making a multifunctional and modular scaffold that can target ...
Exploiting the Supramolecular Chemistry of Carbon Nanohoops and Their Potential in Aqueous Applications

Otteson, Claire (University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)

Carbon nanomaterials have a wide variety of proposed applications spanning across many different fields. Since their fairly recent isolation, many of these applications are actively being investigated, however those that ...
Functionalized Carbon Nanohoops: Nitrogen-Doped Partial Belts, Macrocyclic Ligands, and The Inherent Strain That Affects Their Chemical Properties

Price, Tavis (University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)

Cycloparaphenylenes and related nanohoops offer a new topology to organic chemists to expand the catalogue of electro-responsive materials. Developments in their synthesis have made many functional groups and arenes ...
Leveraging Macrocyclic Architectures in the Development of Polymeric Carbon Nanomaterials

Maust, Ruth (University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)

Carbon-based materials—such as graphene nanoribbons, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes—are promising candidates for many applications due to their wide-ranging properties. However, a lack of methods for precise synthesis, ...
[n+1]CPPs and their Potential as Bioorthogonal Imaging Reagents

Garrison, Anna (University of Oregon, 2021)

Macrocyclic angle-strained alkynes with unique size-dependent fluorescence have the potential to be used as bioorthogonal reagents for innovative biological imaging purposes. Previous analyses of [n+1]cycloparaphenylenes ...
Nanohoops as New Building Blocks for Supramolecular Chemistry

Van Raden, Jeff (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)

The delocalization of pi-electrons through extended carbon networks is a key design strategy to modulate the chemical and physical properties of organic molecules and materials. In addition to the extent of delocalization, ...
Pnictogen-Assisted Self-Assembly of Organic Macrocycles, Cages, and Cyclophanes

Shear, Trevor (University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)

Cyclophanes are a venerable class of macrocyclic and cage compounds that often include unique properties owing to their unusual conformations and high strain. Due to these traits, synthesis of new, complex cyclophanes has ...
Strained Aromatic Macrocycles as the Building Blocks for Functional Materials

Li, Penghao (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

Commonly viewed as the shortest cross sections of armchair carbon nanotubes (CNTs), cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs) represent a unique class of conjugated macrocycles with rigid backbones. In addition to their utility in seeding ...
Synthesis and Characterization of Small Molecule Carbon Nanotube Fragments

Golder, Matthew (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

Cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs) can be considered the smallest possible fragment of an armchair carbon nanotube (CNT), yet they were envisioned as synthetic targets almost 70 years before CNTs were discovered. Having succumbed ...
Synthesis of Strained Carbon Nanotube Fragments and a New Tool for Molecular Strain Analysis

Colwell, Curtis (University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)

Cycloparaphenylene technology has advanced significantly in recent years. From the initial synthesis to today, laboratories around the world have made small improvements that have accumulated into an efficient synthesis ...
Synthetic Methods Towards Strained Aromatic Nanohoops and their Application in Electronics

Darzi, Evan (University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)

Carbon nanohoops represent an interesting and exciting structural motif with many potential material applications. To this end we have developed design several synthetic strategies to access a wide variety of functionalized ...
The Active Template Approach to Mechanically Interlocked Nanocarbons

May, James (University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)

Graphitic carbon nanomaterials hold tremendous promise for a variety of applications. The realization of this potential, however, has been hampered by the lack of synthetic methods by which we can prepare such materials ...
The Design, Synthesis, and Properties of Strained Alkyne Cycloparaphenylenes.

Fehr, Julia (University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)

Strained molecules possess the potential energy required to do work in the form of further chemical transformations. Strained alkynes in particular are an attractive handle for such applications as they can undergo the ...
The Development and Application of Nanohoops as Novel Fluorescent Probes for Biological Applications

Lovell, Terri (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

Fluorescent molecules are imperative for the detection of diseases and observation of complex biological processes in living systems. A wide variety of small molecule fluorophores are available, however they each come with ...
The Synthesis of Functionalized Cycloparaphenylenes as Novel Biocompatible Fluorescent Probes and Organic Materials

White, Brittany (University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)

Conjugated macrocycles have emerged as novel structural motifs that modulate the electronic properties of organic molecules because of their strained and contorted structures. Cycloparaphenylenes, known as nanohoops, are ...