Philipp Seitz

1 Introduction Curved conjugated hydrocarbons have fascinated chemists, physicists, theoreticians and materials scientists from their first proposition.[1] The milestone development of synthetic routes to cycloparaphenylenes, starting in 2008,[2-4] has enabled synthetic chemists to access conjugated nanohoops with a broad range of structural, optoelectronic and materials properties.[5-8] In continuing the quest to expand this family of strained conjugated nanohoops, a number of more complex...

Conflict of Interest The authors declare no conflict of interest. Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Supporting Information Filename Description adfm72943-sup-0001-SuppMat.pdf2 MB Supporting Information References 1, , , Rev. Mod. Phys. 2004, 76, 323. 2, , J. Mater. Chem. 2009, 19, 1678. 3, Nat. Mater. 2020, 19, 11. 4, Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. 2022, 52, 79. 5, , , , , Science 1991, 252, 1415.

Introduction Click to copy section linkSection link copied! Curved aromatic hydrocarbons have garnered significant attention since the first [n]cycloparaphenylene (CPP) synthesis. (1) Their bent π-system leads to unique optoelectronic properties, (2−4) influences aromaticity, (5,6) enables rich supramolecular chemistry, (7−9) and makes such molecules of interest for application in organic electronics.