10.1021/jacs.6b04092.s002 Xiao-Ye Wang Xiao-Ye Wang Akimitsu Narita Akimitsu Narita Wen Zhang Wen Zhang Xinliang Feng Xinliang Feng Klaus Müllen Klaus Müllen Synthesis of Stable Nanographenes with OBO-Doped Zigzag Edges Based on Tandem Demethylation-Electrophilic Borylation American Chemical Society 2016 Stable Nanographenes peritetracene zigzag edges bistetracene analogues tetrabenzo 2016-07-04 00:00:00 Dataset https://acs.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Synthesis_of_Stable_Nanographenes_with_OBO-Doped_Zigzag_Edges_Based_on_Tandem_Demethylation-Electrophilic_Borylation/3485678 A tandem demethylation-aryl borylation strategy was developed to synthesize OBO-doped tetrabenzo­[<i>a,f,j,o</i>]­perylenes (namely “bistetracenes”) and tetrabenzo­[<i>bc,ef,kl,no</i>]­coronenes (namely “peritetracenes”). The OBO-doped bistetracene analogues exhibited excellent stability and strong fluorescence, in contrast to the unstable all-carbon bistetracene. Single-crystal X-ray analysis for OBO-doped bistetracene revealed a twisted double [5]­helicene structure, indicating that this synthesis is applicable to new heterohelicenes. Importantly, cyclodehydrogenation of the bistetracene analogues successfully produced the unprecedented heteroatom-doped peritetracenes, which opened up a new avenue to periacene-type nanographenes with stable zigzag edges.