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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...