| Synthesis of polyynes to model the sp-carbon allotrope carbyne WA Chalifoux, RR Tykwinski Nature chemistry 2 (11), 967, 2010 | 558 | 2010 |
| Bottom-up synthesis of soluble and narrow graphene nanoribbons using alkyne benzannulations W Yang, A Lucotti, M Tommasini, WA Chalifoux Journal of the American Chemical Society 138 (29), 9137-9144, 2016 | 204 | 2016 |
| Synthesis of extended polyynes: Toward carbyne WA Chalifoux, RR Tykwinski Comptes Rendus Chimie 12 (3-4), 341-358, 2009 | 135 | 2009 |
| Chiral peropyrene: synthesis, structure, and properties W Yang, G Longhi, S Abbate, A Lucotti, M Tommasini, C Villani, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 139 (37), 13102-13109, 2017 | 108 | 2017 |
| tert‐Butyl‐End‐Capped Polyynes: Crystallographic Evidence of Reduced Bond‐Length Alternation WA Chalifoux, R McDonald, MJ Ferguson, RR Tykwinski Angewandte Chemie International Edition 48 (42), 7915-7919, 2009 | 101 | 2009 |
| Pyrenes, Peropyrenes, and Teropyrenes: Synthesis, Structures, and Photophysical Properties W Yang, JHSK Monteiro, A de Bettencourt‐Dias, VJ Catalano, ... Angewandte Chemie 128 (35), 10583-10586, 2016 | 98 | 2016 |
| Evidence for solution-state nonlinearity of sp-carbon chains based on IR and Raman spectroscopy: violation of mutual exclusion A Lucotti, M Tommasini, D Fazzi, M Del Zoppo, WA Chalifoux, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 (12), 4239-4244, 2009 | 96 | 2009 |
| Toward carbyne: Synthesis and stability of really long polyynes RR Tykwinski, W Chalifoux, S Eisler, A Lucotti, M Tommasini, D Fazzi, ... Pure and Applied Chemistry 82 (4), 891-904, 2010 | 75 | 2010 |
| Nanographene and graphene nanoribbon synthesis via alkyne benzannulations AD Senese, WA Chalifoux Molecules 24 (1), 118, 2018 | 68 | 2018 |
| Structure and chain polarization of long polyynes investigated with infrared and Raman spectroscopy NR Agarwal, A Lucotti, D Fazzi, M Tommasini, C Castiglioni, ... Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 44 (10), 1398-1410, 2013 | 67 | 2013 |
| Rapid π-extension of aromatics via alkyne benzannulations W Yang, WA Chalifoux Synlett 28 (06), 625-632, 2017 | 63 | 2017 |
| Polyyne synthesis using carbene/carbenoid rearrangements WA Chalifoux, RR Tykwinski The Chemical Record 6 (4), 169-182, 2006 | 60 | 2006 |
| Highly Regioselective Domino Benzannulation Reaction of Buta‐1, 3‐diynes To Construct Irregular Nanographenes W Yang, R Bam, VJ Catalano, WA Chalifoux Angewandte Chemie 130 (45), 14989-14993, 2018 | 55 | 2018 |
| Expanding the scope of peropyrenes and teropyrenes through a facile InCl 3-catalyzed multifold alkyne benzannulation W Yang, RR Kazemi, N Karunathilake, VJ Catalano, MA Alpuche-Aviles, ... Organic Chemistry Frontiers 5 (15), 2288-2295, 2018 | 45 | 2018 |
| Direct and highly regioselective and enantioselective allylation of β-diketones WA Chalifoux, SK Reznik, JL Leighton Nature 487 (7405), 86-89, 2012 | 42 | 2012 |
| Mechanistic aspects of alkyne migration in alkylidene carbenoid rearrangements P Bichler, WA Chalifoux, S Eisler, ALK Shi Shun, ET Chernick, ... Organic Letters 11 (3), 519-522, 2009 | 41 | 2009 |
| New thiophene-functionalized pyrene, peropyrene, and teropyrene via a two-or four-fold alkyne annulation and their photophysical properties W Yang, JHSK Monteiro, A de Bettencourt-Dias, WA Chalifoux Canadian Journal of Chemistry 95 (4), 341-345, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Absolute Raman intensity measurements and determination of the vibrational second hyperpolarizability of adamantyl endcapped polyynes A Lucotti, M Tommasini, D Fazzi, M Del Zoppo, WA Chalifoux, ... Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 43 (9), 1293-1298, 2012 | 37 | 2012 |
| Four-Fold Alkyne Benzannulation: Synthesis, Properties, and Structure of Pyreno[a]pyrene-Based Helicene Hybrids R Bam, W Yang, G Longhi, S Abbate, A Lucotti, M Tommasini, R Franzini, ... Organic letters 21 (21), 8652-8656, 2019 | 33 | 2019 |
| Highly Regio- and Diastereoselective Formation of Tetrasubstituted (Z)-1,2-Dihaloalkenes from the Halogenation of Trimethylsilyl Alkynes with ICl KC Sproul, WA Chalifoux Organic letters 17 (13), 3334-3337, 2015 | 31 | 2015 |
