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Naphthacenes

Known as: Benz(b)Anthracenes, Naphthacenes [Chemical/Ingredient], Tetracenes 
Polyacenes with four ortho-fused benzene rings in a straight linear arrangement. This group is best known for the subclass called TETRACYCLINES.
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Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
Singlet Fission in a Covalently Linked Cofacial Alkynyltetracene Dimer.
Singlet fission is a process in which a singlet exciton converts into two triplet excitons. To investigate this phenomenon, we… 
Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
The Larger Linear N-Heteroacenes.
  • U. Bunz
  • Accounts of chemical research
  • 2015
  • Corpus ID: 206378272
The close structural and chemical relationship of N-heteroacenes to pentacene suggests their broad applicability in organic… 
Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Tetrabenzo[a,f,j,o]perylene: a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with an open-shell singlet biradical ground state.
A novel tetrabenzo[a,f,j,o]perylene, namely "bistetracene" in which two tetracenes are connected side by side with two bonds, was… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Why triple bonds protect acenes from oxidation and decomposition.
An experimental and computational study on the impact of functional groups on the oxidation stability of higher acenes is… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
White-light-emitting self-assembled nanofibers and their evidence by microspectroscopy of individual objects.
The self-assembly of a blue-emitting light-harvesting organogelator and specifically designed highly fluorescent tetracenes… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Effects of electronegative substitution on the optical and electronic properties of acenes and diazaacenes.
Large acenes, particularly pentacenes, are important in organic electronics applications such as thin-film transistors… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Nitrogen-rich oligoacenes: candidates for n-channel organic semiconductors.
The successive replacement of CH moieties by nitrogen atoms in oligoacenes (benzene to hexacene) has been studied computationally… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Exciton fission and fusion in bis(tetracene) molecules with different covalent linker structures.
Bichromophoric molecules can support two spatially separated excited states simultaneously and thus provide novel pathways for… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Syntheses of soluble, pi-stacking tetracene derivatives.
[reaction: see text] The syntheses of a series of fluorine- and alkyl/alkoxy-functionalized tetracenes are reported. These… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Synthesis of 2,3-substituted tetracenes and evaluation of their self-assembling properties in organic solvents.
[structure: see text] Rod-shaped 2,3-di-alkoxytetracenes, soluble in common organic solvents, have been synthesized and studied… 
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