RT Journal Article T1 Homo and Hetero Molecular 3D Nanographenes Employing a Cyclooctatetraene Scaffold A1 Urieta Mora, Javier A1 Krug, Marcel A1 Wiebke, Alex A1 Perles, Josefina A1 Fernández López, Israel A1 Molina-Ontoria, Agustín A1 Guldi, Dirk M. A1 Martín León, Nazario AB Two novel homo and hetero three-dimensional nanographenes, NG1 and NG2, featuring a cyclooctatetraene core are designed, synthesized, and characterized. A concise and efficient bottom-up methodology was employed during which 24 new carbon–carbon bonds were formed. By means of a Scholl reaction nanographenes with 53 fused rings are realized, which exhibited good solubility in common organic solvents. The resulting saddle-like structures of NG1 and NG2 are electron-rich and show good chemical and electrochemical stability. Their molecular structures are fully elucidated by single-crystal X-ray crystallography. From their crystal structure analysis is concluded that both nanographenes are chiral and crystallize as a racemic mixture. Our work was rounded-off by excited state investigations such as electron and energy transfer with electron-acceptors and -donors. PB American Chemical Society SN 0002-7863 SN 1520-5126 YR 2019 FD 2019 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108597 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108597 LA eng NO J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 9, 4162–4172 NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España) NO Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa NO Comunidad de Madrid NO Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DS Docta Complutense RD 8 abr 2025