IOCB covers 2023

Cover art: Tomáš Belloň / IOCB Prague

• Article: Houska, V.; Ukraintsev, E.; Vacek, J.; Rybáček, J.; Bednárová, L.; Pohl, R.; Stará, I. G.; Rezek, B.; Starý, I. Helicene-based π-conjugated macrocycles: their synthesis, properties, chirality and self-assembly into molecular stripes on a graphite surface. Nanoscale 2023, 15, 1542-1553. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NR04209F
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• Article: Lončarić, D.; Movahedifar, F.; Štoček, J. R.; Dračínský, M.; Cvačka, J.; Guan, S.; Bythell, B. J.; Císařová, I.; Masson, E.; Kaleta, J. Solvent-controlled formation of alkali and alkali-earth-secured cucurbituril/guest trimers. Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 9258–9266. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC02032K 
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Azulene, an archetypal anti-Kasha fluorophore, emits only from its second excited singlet state (S2). The cover shows an artistic representation of azulene in three different electronic states, S0, S1, and S2. While it is emissive from aromatic S2, it alleviates its antiaromaticity in S1 by a conical intersection. (Cover art: Tomáš Belloň / IOCB Prague)

• Article: Dunlop, D.; Ludvíková, L.; Banerjee, A.; Ottosson, H.; Slanina, T. Excited-State (Anti)Aromaticity Explains Why Azulene Disobeys Kasha’s Rule. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c07625
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• Article: Santos Hurtado, C.; Bastien, G.; Rončević, I.; Dračínský, M.; Tortorici, T.; Rogers, C. T.; Michl, J.; Kaleta, J. Regular arrays of C60-based molecular rotors mounted on the surface of tris(o-phenylenedioxy)cyclotriphosphazene nanocrystals. Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 960. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CC04559E
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