Conjugated macrocycles

Thiophene-Fused Bisdehydro[12]annulene That Undergoes Transannular Alkyne Cycloaddition by Either Light or Heat

Aiko Fukazawa,*,† Hiroya Oshima,† Yoshihito Shiota,# Shouya Takahashi,# Kazunari Yoshizawa,*,# and Shigehiro Yamaguchi*,†,‡,§ 

Beautiful molecules that might have use in organic electronics materials design: 

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja3126849
 

Posted by Alex Zhukhovitskiy