To address the growing demand for precise carbon nanotube fabrication for electronic and photonic applications, we seek to access nanotubes and their precursors using a bottom-up approach based on traditional organic synthesis. In this way, ultra-short nanotubes may be built to exact chiralities, lengths, and therefore electronic and optical properties. As a first step, we have made great strides in the quickly expanding area of cycloparaphenylene synthesis. We report here the synthesis and properties of functionalized carbon nanohoops for the synthesis of new porous conducting polymers, organized frameworks, and progress towards an ultrashort carbon nanotube and related molecular belts based upon the cycloparaphenylene backbone.

Functionalized cycloparaphenylenes: Towards conducting polymers, new frameworks, and molecular belts

245th National Meeting (2013)

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