On‐surface synthesis of porous graphene nanoribbons containing nonplanar [14]annulene pores

Ajayakumar, M. R.; Di Giovannantonio, Marco; Pignedoli, Carlo A.; Yang, Lin; Ruffieux, Pascal; Ma, Ji; Fasel, Roman; Feng, Xinliang (2022). On‐surface synthesis of porous graphene nanoribbons containing nonplanar [14]annulene pores. Journal of polymer science, 60(12), pp. 1912-1917. Wiley 10.1002/pol.20220003

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The precise introduction of nonplanar pores in the backbone of graphene nanoribbon represents a great challenge. Here, we explore a synthetic strategy toward the preparation of nonplanar porous graphene nanoribbon from a predesigned dibromohexabenzotetracene monomer bearing four cove-edges. Successive thermal annealing steps of the monomers indicate that the dehalogenative aryl-aryl homocoupling yields a twisted polymer precursor on a gold surface and the subsequent cyclodehydrogenation leads to a defective porous graphene nanoribbon containing nonplanar [14]annulene pores and five-membered rings as characterized by scanning tunneling microscopy and noncontact atomic force microscopy. Although the C–C bonds producing [14]annulene pores are not achieved with high yield, our results provide new synthetic perspectives for the on-surface growth of nonplanar porous graphene nanoribbons.

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