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Anthony Jolly1, Dandan Miao1, Maxime Daigle1
1Department of Chemistry and Centre de Recherche sur les Matériaux Avancés, Université Laval, 1045 Ave de la Médecine, Quebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.
Abstract:
The solution-phase synthesis is one of the most promising strategies for the preparation of well-defined graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) in large scale. To prepare high quality, defect-free GNRs, cycloaromatization reactions need to be very efficient, proceed without side reaction and mild enough to accommodate the presence of various functional groups. In this Minireview, we present the latest synthetic approaches for the synthesis of GNRs and related structures, including alkyne benzannulation, photochemical cyclodehydrohalogenation, Mallory and Pd- and Ni-catalyzed reactions.
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