Henrik Ottosson group
Physical organic chemistry: Design of organic compounds with new interesting properties.
Our research
Research in the Ottosson group is a blend of organic chemistry, theoretical chemistry and physical chemistry in rather equal proportions with an additional component of inorganic chemistry. Our general focus is on molecules (and materials) with intriguing electronic structures, and the research can be described as quantum chemistry guided molecular design, stretching from theory to synthesis and subsequent experimental studies as shown below. The projects fall into the research areas of organic photochemistry with focus on excited state aromaticity and antiaromaticity, novel conjugation phenomena, organosilicon chemistry, and molecular electronics.
We perform both experimental and computational studies, and have extensive collaborations with groups in physical and theoretical chemistry, physics and nanoengineering. We are “fundamentalists” as we view basic research and the development of new knowledge and new concepts as imperative for the future progress of our society. Yet, we are also concerned with the transfer of this new basic knowledge and the new concepts to more applied areas such as organic electronics and drug discovery.
Group members
Publications
An Exploration of Substituent Effects on the Photophysical Properties of Monobenzopentalenes
Part of ChemPhysChem, 2024
Excited-State (Anti)Aromaticity Explains Why Azulene Disobeys Kasha's Rule
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 21569-21575, 2023
Part of Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 2023
Single-Not Double-3D-Aromaticity in an Oxidized Closo Icosahedral Dodecaiodo-Dodecaborate Cluster
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 22527-22538, 2023
Part of Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 2023
Part of Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, p. 1875-1888, 2023
- DOI for Toward combined photobiological-photochemical formation of kerosene-type biofuels: which small 1,3-diene photodimerizes most efficiently?
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Photochemistry Driven by Excited-State Aromaticity Gain or Antiaromaticity Relief
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, 2023
Three-Dimensional Fully π-Conjugated Macrocycles: When 3D-Aromatic and When 2D-Aromatic-in-3D?
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 8560-8575, 2022
Part of Green Chemistry, p. 9602-9619, 2022
Triplet State Baird Aromaticity in Macrocycles: Scope, Limitations, and Complications
Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry A, p. 570-584, 2021
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, p. 10255-10265, 2021
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, p. 21598-21598, 2021
Part of Chemical Science, p. 6159-6171, 2021
- DOI for Excited state character of Cibalackrot-type compounds interpreted in terms of Hückel-aromaticity: a rationale for singlet fission chromophore design
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Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 5602-5617, 2020
- DOI for Strategies for Design of Potential Singlet Fission Chromophores Utilizing a Combination of Ground-State and Excited-State Aromaticity Rules
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Part of Nanotechnology, 2020
Part of Cell Reports Physical Science, 2020
Part of Chemical Science, p. 10071-10077, 2020
Part of Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 5158-5172, 2020
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 24305-24315, 2020
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 10942-10954, 2020
Part of ChemPlusChem, p. 712-721, 2019
Excited-state proton transfer relieves antiaromaticity in molecules
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 20303-20308, 2019
Part of Chemistry - An Asian Journal, p. 1870-1878, 2019
Torsional Bias as a Strategy To Tune Single-triplet Gaps in Organic Diradicals
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 12148-12157, 2018
Triplet state homoaromaticity: concept, computational validation and experimental relevance
Part of Chemical Science, p. 3165-3176, 2018
Superior adhesion of graphene nanoscrolls
Part of Communications Physics, 2018
Substituent Effects in Chain-Breaking Aryltellurophenol Antioxidants
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 3520-3527, 2018
Part of Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 6327-6340, 2017
Part of Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 6327-6340, 2017
The Silacyclobutene Ring: An Indicator of Triplet State Baird-Aromaticity
Part of Inorganics, 2017
Cyclopropyl Group: An Excited-State Aromaticity Indicator?
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 13684-13695, 2017
Part of Molecules, 2017
- DOI for A Computational Investigation of the Substituent Effects on Geometric, Electronic, and Optical Properties of Siloles and 1,4-Disilacyclohexa-2,5-dienes
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Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 12369-12378, 2017
White-light photoassisted covalent functionalization of graphene using 2-propanol
Part of Small Methods, 2017
Benzo[b]thiophene Fusion Enhances Local Borepin Aromaticity in Polycyclic Heteroaromatic Compounds
Part of Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 13440-13448, 2017
Unraveling Excited-Singlet-State Aromaticity via Vibrational Analysis
Part of Chem, p. 870-880, 2017
Part of Nature Communications, 2017
Part of RSC Advances, p. 36961-36970, 2016
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 2793-2800, 2016
Many-body effects and excitonic features in 2D biphenylene carbon
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2016
Part of Nature Communications, 2016
Diindeno-fusion of an anthracene as a design strategy for stable organic biradicals
Part of Nature Chemistry, p. 753-759, 2016
Polyfulvenes: Polymers with "Handles" That Enable Extensive Electronic Structure Tuning
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 25726-25737, 2015
The 6,6-Dicyanopentafulvene Core: A Template for the Design of Electron-Acceptor Compounds
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 8168-8176, 2015
Nano-fabrication of molecular electronic junctions by targeted modification of metal-molecule bonds
Part of Scientific Reports, 2015
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 15441-15450, 2015
Cooperative Gold Nanoparticle Stabilization by Acetylenic Phosphaalkenes
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, p. 10634-10638, 2015
The excited state antiaromatic benzene ring: a molecular Mr Hyde?
Part of Chemical Society Reviews, p. 6472-6493, 2015
The first intramolecular silene Diels-Alder reactions
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 2919-2921, 2014
Optimization of the Cyclic Cross-Hyperconjugation in 1,4-Ditetrelcyclohexa-2,5-dienes
Part of Organometallics, p. 2997-3004, 2014
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