The reaction is a Diels-Alder reaction; it's a very famous reaction in organic synthesis for drugs. We put the two reactants, A and B, together. Then, pow! Made a spark. We saw that we were ...

Figure 1: Scott and colleagues propose growing single-chirality carbon nanotubes through the cycloaddition of acetylene (HCCH) across the indented 'bay region' of a polycyclic aromatic starting ...