Year 2023

351. W. Fan, T. M. Fukunaga, S. Wu, Y. Han, Q. Zhou, J. Wang, Z. Li, X. Hou, H. Wei, Y. Ni, H. Isobe,* J. Wu*, “Synthesis and chiral resolution of a triply twisted Möbius carbon nanobelt”, Nat. Synth. 2023, 2, 880–887 (see News & Views: Q. Miao, J. Casado, “Paradromic molecules”, Nat. Synth. 2023, 2, 808–810).

350. T. Jiao, Y. Ni, T. Xu, X. Hou, S. Wu, L. Ren, Z. Sun*, J. Wu*, “Synthesis of monolayer and persistent bilayer graphene fragments via a radical-mediated coupling approach”, Nat. Synth. 2023, 2, DOI: 10.1038/s44160-023-00348-w.

349.  G.-F. Huo, T. M. Fukunaga, X. Hou, Y. Han, W. Fan, S. Wu,* H. Isobe,* J. Wu*, “Facile Synthesis and Chiral Resolution of Expanded Helicenes with up to 35 cata-Fused Benzene Rings”,  Agnew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e20221809 (selected as Hot Paper).

348. Y. Zou, X. Hou, H. Wei, J. Shao, Q. Jiang, L. Ren, J. Wu*, “Circumcoronenes”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202301041 (selected as a VIP paper, highlighted by Nat. Rev. Chem.: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-023-00555-z and featured in Angew. Chem. 2023, e202305289).

347. Q. Zhou, X. Hou, J. Wang, Y. Ni, W. Fan, Z. Li, X. Wei, K. Li, W. Yuan, Z. Xu, M. Zhu, Y. Zhao, Z. Sun*, J. Wu*, “A Fused [5]Helicene Dimer with a Figure-Eight Topology: Synthesis, Chiral Resolution, and Electronic Properties”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202302266 (selected as Hot Paper).

346. T. Shen, D. Dijkstra, A. Farrando-Pérez, P. G. Boj, J. M. Villalvilla, J. A. Quintana, Y. Zou, X. Hou, H. Wei, Z. Li, Z. Sun,* M. A. Díaz-García*, J. Wu*, “Fused Triangulene Dimers: Facile Synthesis by Intramolecular Radical-Radical Coupling and Application for Near Infrared Lasers“, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202304197 (selected as Hot Paper).

345. L. Ren, Y. Han, X. Hou, Y. Ni, Y. Zou, T. Jiao, J. Wu*, “Aromaticity in 2D Fully π-Conjugated Multicyclic Macrocycles”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 12398–12406.

344. T. Shen, Y. Zou, X. Hou, H. Wei, L. Ren, L. Jiao, J. Wu*, “Bis-peri-dinaphtho-rylenes: Facile Synthesis via Radical-Mediated Coupling Reactions and their Distinctive Electronic Structures”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202311928 (selected as Hot Paper).

343. Z. Sun, W. Fan, Y. Han, W. Yuan, Y. Ni, J. Wang, H. Wei, Y. Zhao, Z. Sun,* J. Wu*, “Helical fused 1,2:8,9-dibenzozethrene oligomers with up to 201o end-to-end twist: “One-pot” synthesis and chiral resolution.” Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 7922-7927.

342. J. Lawrence, Y. He, H. Wei, J. Su, S. Song, A. W. Rodrigues, D. Miravet, P. Hawrylak, J. Zhao, J. Wu*, Jiong Lu*, “Topological Design and Synthesis of High-Spin Aza-triangulenes without Jahn–Teller Distortions”, ACS Nano 2023, 17, 20237–20245.

341. M.-W. Wang, W. Fan, X. Li, Y. Liu, Z. Li, W. Jiang, J. Wu*, Z. Wang*, “Molecular Carbons: How Far Can We Go?”, ACS Nano 2023, 17, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c07970.

340. S. Qiu, Y. Zhao, L. Zhang, Y. Ni, Y. Wu, H. Cong, D. Qu, W. Jiang, J. Wu, H. Tian, Z. Wang*, “Axially N-Embedded Quasi-Carbon Nanohoops with Multioxidation States”, CCS Chem. 2023, DOI: 10.31635/ccschem.023.202302830.

339. G. Merino*, M. Solà*, I. Fernández*, C. Foroutan-Nejad*, P. Lazzeretti*, G. Frenking*, H. L. Anderson, D. Sundholm, F. P. Cossío, M. A. Petrukhina, J. Wu, J. I. Wu, A. Restrepo, “Aromaticity: Quo Vadis”, Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 5569-5576.

338. X. Zhu, C. Gao, Y. Ren, X. Zhang, E. Li, C. Wang, F. Yang, J. Wu, W. Hu, and H. Chen*, “High-Contrast Bidirectional Optoelectronic Synapses based on 2D Molecular Crystal Heterojunctions for Motion Detection”, Adv. Mater. 2023, 35, 2301468.

337. Z. Wang, M. Wang, J. Song,* J. Wu*, Zhen Li *, “Activating photocatalytic hydrogen evolution by constructing Ni-based organic layers and tailoring its crystal facets”, Mater. Chem. Front. 2023, 7, 2651-2660.