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Self-organization of chalcogen-containing cyclic alkynes and alkenes to yield columnar structures
Daniel B Werz1, Tobias H Staeb, Christoph Benisch
1Organisch-Chemisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Organic Letters
|February 1, 2002
Abstract:
Close contacts between chalcogen atoms in cyclic dienes and diynes are used to create columnar structures in the solid state. Rigid and fairly planar cycles with chalcogen centers are the preconditions for forming those columnar structures.