Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011-03-16

Diels-Alder chemistry of graphite and graphene: graphene as diene and dienophile.

Santanu Sarkar, Elena Bekyarova, Sandip Niyogi, Robert C Haddon

Index: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133(10) , 3324-7, (2011)

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Abstract

The zero-band-gap electronic structure of graphene enables it to function as either the diene or the dienophile in the Diels-Alder reaction, and this versatile synthetic method offers a powerful strategy for the reversible modification of the electronic properties of graphene under very mild conditions.