Figure 2.
Geometrical and aromatic structure (aromaticity patterns) of the antidot patterned 6A × 8Z (a) and 10A × 10Z (b) nanographenes.4,5 Solid red circles indicate π aromaticity. Full red ellipses denote σ aromaticity, whereas the blue ellipse signifies σ antiaromaticity. The intact structures are shown in (1) and (4), respectively. The 4 and 6 holes 6A × 8Z antidots are shown in (2) and (3). The 9 orthogonal 10A × 10Z nonpassivated (5) and passivated (6) antidots are shown in (5) and (6), respectively, whereas the corresponding 9 nonorthogonal 10A × 10Z antidots are shown in (7), (8).