Bottom-up solution synthesis of narrow nitrogen-doped graphene nanoribbons

Authors

Timonthy H. Vo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Mikhail Shekhirev, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Donna A. Kunkel, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
François Orange, University of Puerto Rico
Maxime J. -F. Guinel, University of Puerto Rico
Axel Enders, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Alexander Sinitskii, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, pp. 4172-4174. DOI: 10.1039/c4cc00885e

Comments

©The Royal Society of Chemistry 2014. Used by permission.

Abstract

Large quantities of narrow graphene nanoribbons with edgeincorporated nitrogen atoms can be synthesized via Yamamoto coupling of molecular precursors containing nitrogen atoms followed by cyclodehydrogenation using Scholl reaction.