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. 2021 Jun 24;12:3940. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24261-y

Fig. 1. Synthetic strategy toward structurally diverse nanographenes.

Fig. 1

a Structural diversity of PAHs and nanographenes. b Diversity-oriented synthesis of nanographenes by APEX-based growth-from-template method. Red, blue, and green hexagons represent newly constructed hexagons created by K-APEX, M-APEX, and bay-APEX reactions, respectively. c DAPEX strategy toward achieving the formal M-region-selective APEX reaction. Gray hexagons represent newly constructed hexagons created by the present M-APEX reaction. n number of hexagons contained in a nanographene or a PAH structure, N number of possible structures of nanographenes and PAHs.