Nanoscale Aromaticity and Supramolecular Electronic Materials

Project Information

ARO-MAT

Grant agreement ID: 885606

DOI

10.3030/885606

Project closed

EC signature date 12 May 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 491 625,00

EU contribution

€ 2 491 625,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (44)

The odd-number cyclo[13]carbon and its dimer, cyclo[26]carbon

Author(s): Florian Albrecht, Igor Rončević, Yueze Gao, Fabian Paschke, Alberto Baiardi, Ivano Tavernelli, Shantanu Mishra, Harry L. Anderson, Leo Gross
Published in: Science, Issue 384, 2024, Page(s) 677-682, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.ado1399

Electron Phase Detection in Single Molecules by Interferometry

Author(s): Zhixin Chen, Jie-Ren Deng, Mengyun Wang, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Jonathan Baugh, Harish Bhaskaran, Jan A. Mol, Harry L. Anderson, Lapo Bogani, James O. Thomas
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 147, 2025, Page(s) 22572-22579, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c03056

Enhanced Coherence by Coupling Spins through a Delocalized π-System: Vanadyl Porphyrin Dimers

Author(s): I. Pozo, Z. Huang, F. Lombardi, D. Alexandropoulos, F. Kong, M. Slota, J.-R. Deng, W. Stawski, P. Horton, S. Coles, W. Myers, L. Bogani and H. L. Anderson
Published in: Chem, 2023, ISSN 2451-9308
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2023.09.013

Charge and Spin Transfer Dynamics in a Weakly Coupled Porphyrin Dimer

Author(s): Sebastian M. Kopp, Ashley J. Redman, Igor Rončević, Lisa Schröder, Lapo Bogani, Harry L. Anderson, Christiane R. Timmel
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 146, 2024, Page(s) 21476-21489, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c04186

Singly and Triply Linked Magnetic Porphyrin Lanthanide Arrays

Author(s): J. M. Van Raden, D. I. Alexandropoulos, M. Slota, S. Sopp, T. Matsuno, A. L. Thompson, H. Isobe, H. L. Anderson, L. Bogani
Published in: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, Page(s) 8693–8706, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02084

Exchange-induced spin polarization in a single magnetic molecule junction

Author(s): Tian Pei, James O. Thomas, Simen Sopp, Ming-Yee Tsang, Nicola Dotti, Jonathan Baugh, Nicholas F. Chilton, Salvador Cardona-Serra, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño, Harry L. Anderson, Lapo Bogani
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31909-w

Strained Porphyrin Tape-Cycloparaphenylene Hybrid Nanorings

Author(s): W. Stawski, J. M. Van Raden, C. W. Patrick, P. N. Horton, J. Coles and H. L. Anderson.
Published in: Org. Lett., 2023, Page(s) 378-383, ISSN 1523-7060
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c04089

Synthesis of triple stranded porphyrin nanobelts

Author(s): Arnau Rodríguez-Rubio, He Zhu, Ka Man Cheung, Igor Rončević, Lene A. Gödde, Janko Hergenhahn, Joshua L. Field, Prakhar Gupta, Wojciech Stawski, Henrik Gotfredsen, Joseph Straw, Matthew Edmondson, James N. O’Shea, Alex Saywell, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Science, Issue 390, 2025, Page(s) 290-293, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adz8900

Template‐Directed Synthesis of Strained <i>meso‐meso</i>‐Linked Porphyrin Nanorings

Author(s): Jeff M. Van Raden, Jie‐Ren Deng, Henrik Gotfredsen, Janko Hergenhahn, Michael Clarke, Matthew Edmondson, Jack Hart, James N. O'Shea, Fernanda Duarte, Alex Saywell, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 63, 2025, Page(s) e202400103, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202400103

From Macrocycles to Quantum Rings: Does Aromaticity Have a Size Limit?

Author(s): M. Jirásek, H. L. Anderson and M. D. Peeks
Published in: Acc. Chem. Res., 2021, Page(s) 3241-3251, ISSN 0001-4842
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00323

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

Author(s): Igor Rončević, Fabian Paschke, Yueze Gao, Leonard-Alexander Lieske, Lene A. Gödde, Stefano Barison, Samuele Piccinelli, Alberto Baiardi, Ivano Tavernelli, Jascha Repp, Florian Albrecht, Harry L. Anderson, Leo Gross
Published in: Science, Issue 392, 2026, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.aea3321

Evaluating the interactions between vibrational modes and electronic transitions using frontier orbital energy derivatives

Author(s): Lisa A. Schröder, Harry L. Anderson, Igor Rončević
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 60, 2024, Page(s) 7606-7609, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc02066a

Phase-Coherent Charge Transport through a Porphyrin Nanoribbon-Graphene Junction

Author(s): Z. Chen, J.-R. Deng, S. Hou, X. Bian, J. L. Swett, Q. Wu, J. Baugh, G. A. D. Briggs, J. A. Mol, C. J. Lambert, H. L. Anderson and J. O. Thomas.
Published in: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c02451

Disentangling global and local ring currents

Author(s): D. Bradley, M. Jirásek, H. L. Anderson, M. D. Peeks
Published in: Chem. Sci., 2023, Page(s) 1762-1768, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2sc05923a

Porphyrin-fused graphene nanoribbons

Author(s): Qiang Chen, Alessandro Lodi, Heng Zhang, Alex Gee, Hai I. Wang, Fanmiao Kong, Michael Clarke, Matthew Edmondson, Jack Hart, James N. O’Shea, Wojciech Stawski, Jonathan Baugh, Akimitsu Narita, Alex Saywell, Mischa Bonn, Klaus Müllen, Lapo Bogani, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Nature Chemistry, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 1133-1140, ISSN 1755-4330
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01477-1

Covalent Template-Directed Synthesis of a Spoked 18-Porphyrin Nanoring

Author(s): M. A. Majewski, W. Stawski, J. M. Van Raden, M. Clarke, J. Hart, J. N. O’Shea, A. Saywell, H. L. Anderson
Published in: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, Page(s) e202302114, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202302114

Connections to the Electrodes Control the Transport Mechanism in Single‐Molecule Transistors

Author(s): Zhixin Chen, Steffen L. Woltering, Bart Limburg, Ming‐Yee Tsang, Jonathan Baugh, G. Andrew D. Briggs, Jan A. Mol, Harry L. Anderson, James. O. Thomas
Published in: Angewandte Chemie, Issue 136, 2024, Page(s) e202401323, ISSN 0044-8249
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202401323

Solution-phase stabilization of a cyclocarbon by catenane formation

Author(s): Yueze Gao, Prakhar Gupta, Igor Rončević, Coral Mycroft, Paul J. Gates, Anthony W. Parker, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Science, Issue 389, 2025, Page(s) 708-710, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.ady6054

Bending a Photonic Wire into a Ring

Author(s): H. Gotfredsen, J.-R. Deng, J. Van Raden, M. Righetto, J. Hergenhahn, M. Clarke, A. Bellamy-Carter, J. Hart, J. O’Shea, T. D. W. Claridge, F. Duarte, A. Saywell, L. M. Herz and H. L. Anderson
Published in: Nat. Chem., 2022, Page(s) 1436–1442, ISSN 1755-4330
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-01032-w

On-surface synthesis of a doubly anti-aromatic carbon allotrope

Author(s): Y. Gao, F. Albrecht, I. Rončević, I. Ettedgui, P. Kumar, L. M. Scriven, K. E. Christensen, S. Mishra, L. Righetti, M. Rossmannek, I. Tavernelli, H. L. Anderson and L. Gross
Published in: Nature, 2023, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06566-8

Correction: Molecular Aharonov–Bohm-type interferometers based on porphyrin nanorings

Author(s): Chi Y. Cheng, Gil Harari, Igor Rončević, Juan E. Peralta, Harry L. Anderson, Andrew M. Wibowo-Teale, Oded Hod
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 21641-21641, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d5sc90237a

Bimolecular Sandwich Aggregates of Porphyrin Nanorings

Author(s): Henrik Gotfredsen, Janko Hergenhahn, Fernanda Duarte, Timothy D. W. Claridge, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 146, 2024, Page(s) 25232-25244, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c09267

Correspondence on “How aromatic are molecular nanorings? The case of a six-porphyrin nanoring”

Author(s): J.-R. Deng, D. Bradley, M. Jirásek, H. L. Anderson, M. D. Peeks
Published in: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, Page(s) e202201231, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202201231

Design principles for photoswitchable fluorescent dyads

Author(s): Sili Qiu, Andrew T. Frawley, Kathryn G. Leslie, Xingyu Qiu, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 22101-22110, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d5sc06258f

Two-terminal analog memory comprising self-assembled monolayers of edge-fused porphyrin oligomers

Author(s): Xinkai Qiu, Jie-Ren Deng, G. Andrew D. Briggs, Harry L. Anderson, James O. Thomas
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 17, 2025, Page(s) 22315-22321, ISSN 2040-3364
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d5nr02773j

The anti-aromatic dianion and aromatic tetraanion of [18]annulene

Author(s): Wojciech Stawski, Yikun Zhu, Igor Rončević, Zheng Wei, Marina A. Petrukhina, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Nature Chemistry, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 998-1002, ISSN 1755-4330
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01469-1

β,β-Directly Linked Porphyrin Rings: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Fullerene Binding

Author(s): Qiang Chen, Amber L. Thompson, Kirsten E. Christensen, Peter N. Horton, Simon J. Coles, and Harry L. Anderson
Published in: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c03549

On-Surface Synthesis of Ni-Porphyrin-Doped Graphene Nanoribbons

Author(s): Matthew Edmondson, Michael Clarke, James N. O’Shea, Qiang Chen, Harry L. Anderson, Alex Saywell
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 33390-33397, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c09188

High Charge Carrier Mobility in Porphyrin Nanoribbons

Author(s): He Zhu, Guanzhao Wen, Wenhao Zheng, Nicholas H. Rees, Wojciech Stawski, Hai I. Wang, Mischa Bonn, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Angewandte Chemie, Issue 137, 2025, Page(s) e202417429, ISSN 0044-8249
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202417429

Encapsulation of an Au₂₅ Nanocluster inside a Porphyrin Nanoring Enhances Singlet Oxygen Generation and Photo‐Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction

Author(s): Abolfazl Ziarati, Henrik Gotfredsen, Arnulf Rosspeintner, Jiangtao Zhao, Harry L. Anderson, Thomas Bürgi
Published in: Angewandte Chemie, Issue 137, 2025, Page(s) e202414908, ISSN 0044-8249
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202414908

Ballistic Conductance through Porphyrin Nanoribbons

Author(s): Jie-Ren Deng, M. Teresa González, He Zhu, Harry L. Anderson, Edmund Leary
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 146, 2024, Page(s) 3651-3659, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c07734

Controlling A_<i>x</i>Mn[Fe(CN)₆] charge transfer pathways through tilt-engineering for enhanced metal-to-metal interactions

Author(s): A. Regueiro, J. Castells-Gil, C. Shen, I. Mikulska, C. Allen, L. Bogani, R. Torres-Cavanillas
Published in: Materials Advances, Issue 5, 2024, Page(s) 7473-7480, ISSN 2633-5409
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.1039/d4ma00262h

Cationic polaron delocalization in porphyrin nanoribbons

Author(s): Sebastian M. Kopp, Jie-Ren Deng, Ashley J. Redman, Henrik Gotfredsen, Robert M.J. Jacobs, Harry L. Anderson, Christiane R. Timmel
Published in: Chem, Issue 10, 2025, Page(s) 3595-3606, ISSN 2451-9294
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2024.07.011

An 18-porphyrin nanoring at the size limit for global aromaticity

Author(s): Jake Holmes, Henrik Gotfredsen, Lene Gödde, Janko Hergenhahn, Kavita Rani, Keigo Yamada, Jieren Deng, Liv Warwick, Michael Clarke, Matthew Edmondson, James O'Shea, Alexander Saywell, Harry Anderson
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026, Page(s) 32840–32850, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-hchwd

Radical Anions of Porphyrin Molecular Wires: Delocalization and Dynamics

Author(s): Janko Hergenhahn, Jake M. Holmes, Jie-Ren Deng, Henrik Gotfredsen, Robert M. J. Jacobs, Sebastian M. Kopp, Christiane R. Timmel, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 147, 2025, Page(s) 978-987, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c14161

Aromaticity Reversal Induced by Vibrations in Cyclo[16]carbon

Author(s): Igor Rončević, Freddie J. Leslie, Max Rossmannek, Ivano Tavernelli, Leo Gross, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 145, 2023, Page(s) 26962-26972, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10207

Crystallographic evidence for global aromaticity in the di-anion and tetra-anion of a cyclophane hydrocarbon

Author(s): W. Stawski, Y. Zhu, Z. Wei, M. A. Petrukhina and H. L. Anderson
Published in: Chem. Sci, 2023, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sc04251k

Global Aromatic Ring Currents in Neutral Porphyrin Nanobelts

Author(s): Marco Vitek, Jie-Ren Deng, Harry L. Anderson, Igor Rončević
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 1405-1411, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c14100

Anthracene-Porphyrin Nanoribbons

Author(s): H. Zhu, Q. Chen, I. Rončević, K. E. Christensen and H. L. Anderson
Published in: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202307035

Spin Interactions in Supramolecular Assemblies of Porphyrin Oligomer Radical Anions

Author(s): Janko Hergenhahn, Sebastian M. Kopp, Henrik Gotfredsen, Kan Tang, Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder, Christiane R. Timmel, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 64, 2026, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202518425

Charge delocalization and global aromaticity in a partially fused 12-porphyrin nanoring

Author(s): Sebastian M. Kopp, Henrik Gotfredsen, Janko Hergenhahn, Arnau Rodríguez-Rubio, Jie-Ren Deng, He Zhu, Wojciech Stawski, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Chem, Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) 3410-3427, ISSN 2451-9294
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2024.06.034

Masked alkynes for synthesis of threaded carbon chains

Author(s): C. W. Patrick, Y. Gao, P. Gupta, A. L. Thompson, A. W. Parker and H. L. Anderson
Published in: Nature Chemistry, 2023, ISSN 1755-4330
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-023-01374-z

Polymorphism and flexibility of six-porphyrin nanorings in the solid state

Author(s): Wojciech Stawski, Harry L. Anderson
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) 16938-16946, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4sc05255b

Molecular Aharonov–Bohm-type interferometers based on porphyrin nanorings

Author(s): Chi Y. Cheng, Gil Harari, Igor Rončević, Juan E. Peralta, Harry L. Anderson, Andrew M. Wibowo-Teale, Oded Hod
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 4392-4401, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4sc07992b