Heteroatom doping in carbon macrocycles for advanced synthesis and applications

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Or Dishi, Yuval Rahav and Ori Gidron

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 522
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Bifuran- and bithiophene-fused 4,6-dihydro-1,2,7-oxadiborepins as building blocks for conjugated copolymers

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Org. Chem. Front., 2025, 12, 1137
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A “sacrificial reagent” strategy for tailoring adaptive aromaticity in pyrrole rings with its application to singlet fission: a combined DFT and unsupervised machine learning study

Qianqian Deng, Sajid Imran, Zijie Qiu, Daigo Miyajima and Jun Zhu

Org. Chem. Front., 2026, 13, 484
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Perfect and Defective 13C-Furan-Derived Nanothreads from Modest-Pressure Synthesis Analyzed by 13C NMR

Bryan S. Matsuura, Steven Huss, Zhaoxi Zheng, Shichen Yuan, Tao Wang, Bo Chen, John V. Badding, Dirk Trauner, Elizabeth Elacqua, Adri C. T. van Duin, Vincent H. Crespi and Klaus Schmidt-Rohr

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 9529
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Self-assembly of macrocyclic oligofurans to create novel organic nanotubes through π–π stacking: a computational study

Hamid Reza Masoodi, Sotoodeh Bagheri and Masoud Rohani Moghadam

Molecular Simulation, 2024, 50, 207
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A fully conjugated meso-boron-substituted porphyrinoid combining Lewis acidity with redox-switchable aromaticity

Manuel Buckel, Jonas Klopf, Johannes S. Schneider, Artur Lik, Nicolas A. Riensch, Ivo Krummenacher, Holger Braunschweig, Bernd Engels and Holger Helten

Nat Commun, 2025, 16
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Conjugated Macrocycles for Host‐Guest Recognition and Optoelectronic Applications

Dongyue An, Yuanhe Gu, Teng Wang, Xiaozhi Zhang, Jiangyu Zhu, Rong Zhang, Xuefeng Lu and Yunqi Liu

Advanced Materials, 2025
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Ring Size Determines the Conformation, Global Aromaticity and Photophysical Properties of Macrocyclic Oligofurans

Or Dishi, Partha Malakar, Linda J. W. Shimon, Sanford Ruhman and Ori Gidron

Chemistry A European J, 2021, 27, 17794
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Design, Synthesis and Aromaticity of an Alternating Cyclo[4]Thiophene[4]Furan

Manami Kawakami, Dhruv Sharma, Anthony J. Varni, Stephanie Tristram‐Nagle, David Yaron, Tomasz Kowalewski and Kevin J. T. Noonan

Chemistry A European J, 2023, 29
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A Macrocyclic Furan with Accessible Oxidation States: Switching Between Aromatic and Antiaromatic Global Ring Currents

Or Dishi, Yuval Rahav, Raanan Carmieli and Ori Gidron

Chemistry A European J, 2022, 28
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Palladium‐Catalyzed Cyclizative Borylation of Allenyl Ketones through Carbene Boryl Migratory Insertion: Access to Densely Substituted Furyl Boronates

Kang Wang, Yan Xu and Jianbo Wang

Chemistry A European J, 2023, 29
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Fusion of Aza‐ and Oxadiborepins with Furans in a Reversible Ring‐Opening Process Furnishes Versatile Building Blocks for Extended π‐Conjugated Materials

Jonas Bachmann, Andreas Helbig, Merian Crumbach, Ivo Krummenacher, Holger Braunschweig and Holger Helten

Chemistry A European J, 2022, 28
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Synthesis and Structure‐Property Relationships in Regioisomeric Alternating Borane‐Terthiophene Polymers

Abdullah F. Alahmadi, Xiaodong Yin, Roger A. Lalancette and Frieder Jäkle

Chemistry A European J, 2023, 29
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Alternating behavior in furan-acetylene macrocycles reveals the size-dependency of Hückel’s rule in neutral molecules

Yuval Rahav, Shinaj K. Rajagopal, Or Dishi, Benny Bogoslavsky and Ori Gidron

Commun Chem, 2023, 6
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Precise Synthesis of Ester-Functionalized Cyclo[6]- and Cyclo[7]furans

Dhruv Sharma, Leticia Maria Pequeno Madureira, Tomasz Kowalewski and Kevin J. T. Noonan

J. Org. Chem., 2025, 90, 9733
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Concealed antiaromaticity

Florian Glöcklhofer

Open Res Europe, 2025, 5, 70
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Biomass-Based Discrete Furan Oligomers as Materials for Electrochromic Devices

Eduardo C. Atayde, Guan-Lun Fong, Jyun-Yi Yeh, Babasaheb M. Matsagar, Yu-Cheng Wang, De-Chian Chen, Chi-How Peng, Yi-Pei Li, Yusuke Yamauchi, Kuo-Chuan Ho and Kevin C.-W. Wu

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2024, 12, 459
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Examining the Impact of Side-Chain Chirality on Conformation of a Helical Poly(3-(S-1-ethylhexyl)esterfuran)

Dhruv Sharma, Manami Kawakami, Megan Rice, Erin Smith, Soren Westrey, Yuyang Shang, Claire Gist, Leticia Maria Pequeno Madureira, Karl H. G. Schulz, Anthony J. Varni, Isabella M. Stranick, Roberto R. Gil, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, Linda Peteanu, Tomasz Kowalewski and Kevin J. T. Noonan

Macromolecules, 2025, 58, 12336
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