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CARBON NANOMATERIALS

Carbon nanobelts do the twist

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Using a bottom-up synthetic method, an all sp2-hybridized carbon nanobelt with a Möbius topology is prepared. The macrocyclization step is a Wittig reaction between an aldehyde and phosphorous ylide at opposite edges of a strip that induces a twist.

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Fig. 1: Synthetic strategy to prepare a MCNB.

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Price, T.W., Jasti, R. Carbon nanobelts do the twist. Nat. Synth 1, 502–503 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-022-00083-8

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