• 文献标题:   Open-Shell Graphene Fragments
  • 文献类型:   Review
  • 作  者:   ZENG WD, WU JS
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  • 出版物名称:   CHEM
  • ISSN:   2451-9294
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  • 被引频次:   72
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.chempr.2020.10.009 EA FEB 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

The electronic properties of finite-sized graphene fragments are strongly dependent on their topological structures. The existence of two or more extended zigzag edges could lead to unique open-shell character and magnetic activity. In this review, various types of well-defined graphene nanoribbons, nanographenes, and graphene-like molecules with open-shell character are summarized. Particularly, chemistry and electronic properties of graphene fragments with one, two, and three pairs of parallel zigzag edges, zethrenes with quinoidal structures, and [n]triangulenes with three zigzag edges are discussed in detail. Synthesis of this kind of open-shell molecules is very challenging, and both solution-phase and on-surface chemistry have been used. Their radical characters can be simply predicted in terms of Clar's sextets and quantitatively analyzed by spin-unrestricted density functional theory or multireference quantum mechanical calculations. Their unique magnetic activity and quantum properties would render them promising materials for all carbon-based spintronic and quantum devices.