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Development Of New Synthetic Methods For Carbon Nanohoops, Merfat Aljhdli

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Carbon nanotubes have received much attention from the material chemists after the synthesis and structure analysis by Iijima in 1991. It was envisioned that cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs), which comprise a sequence of benzene units connected at para position to make a cyclic ring structure, are possible templates for growing carbon nanotubes of a single chirality and single diameter for nanotechnology application. Recently, chemists turned their attention to synthesizing aromatic carbon nanobelts proposed as a general term for carbon molecules composed of fused benzene rings in cylindrical structure shape. Cyclophenacenes (CPAs) as carbon nanobelts are expected to be more suitable candidates for …