Room-temperature selective cyclodehydrogenation on Au(111) via radical addition of open-shell resonance structures

Abstract Cyclodehydrogenation is an important ring-formation reaction that can directly produce planar-conjugated carbon-based nanomaterials from nonplanar molecules. However, inherently high C–H bond energy necessitates a high temperature during dehydrogenation, and the ubiquity of C − H bonds in m...

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Main Authors: Deng-Yuan Li, Zheng-Yang Huang, Li-Xia Kang, Bing-Xin Wang, Jian-Hui Fu, Ying Wang, Guang-Yan Xing, Yan Zhao, Xin-Yu Zhang, Pei-Nian Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53927-6