Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Nagoya University

Keigo, Iain, Wataru’s paper has been accepted in Angew. Chem.!! Congratulations!!
Great work Keigo (second from left) for his first original paper!!

Thanks to referees’ fruitful comments, we could additionally perform experiments to bring out the unique and interesting properties of seven-membered ring polycyclic aromatics having partially saturated structures.

“Synthesis of Heptagon-Containing Polyarenes by Catalytic C–H Activation”
Keigo E. Yamada, Iain A. Stepek, Wataru Matsuoka, Hideto Ito,* Kenichiro Itami*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202311770. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202311770. [detail]