Invited Lecture – Hiroyuki Isobe

Nanocarbons such as fullerene, nanotubes and graphene are enchanting not only scientists but also lay persons with their attractive structures composed of sp²-carbon. The fundamental geometry of sp²-carbon, i.e., trigonal planar, is the key to generate unique network, which also cover nonplanar networks with a combination of non-hexagonal polygons. This lecture will show a synthetic chemist's approach to exploit the chemistry of the "trigonal planar" structures with organic syntheses as a firm ground. Some representative keywords to be covered in the lecture shall be as follows: synthetic nanotube molecules, molecular bearings, chirality, circularly polarized luminescence, curved pi-systems, machine-learning assisted reaction optimizations, van 't Hoff validations and so on.