title: para-Connected cyclophenylenes and hemispherical polyarenes: building blocks for single-walled carbon nanotubes?
abstract: Carbon nanotubes by design? Cyclo-para-phenylenes are monomers for the synthesis of armchair carbon nanotubes (see picture, right), and are also attractive fluorophores that display size-dependent emission properties. Geodesic polyarenes represent a realistic alternative for the rational design of carbon nanotubes through the chemical elongation of the hydrocarbon template (left).
authors.affiliation: Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. uwe.bunz@oci.uni-heidelberg.de
authors.forename: Uwe H F
authors.initials: UH
authors.lastname: Bunz
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Menning
authors.forename: Nazario
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Martín