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Synthesis and studies of 1,4,5,8,9,12,13,16-octamethoxytetraphenylene
Chun Wing Lai1, Chi Keung Lam, Hung Kay Lee
1Department of Chemistry and Central Laboratory of the Institute of Molecular Technology for Drug Discovery and Synthesis, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Organic Letters
|March 14, 2003
Abstract:
[structure: see text] The synthesis of 1,4,5,8,9,12,13,16-octamethoxytetraphenylene (6) is accomplished in five steps from 3,6-dimethoxy-2-nitroaniline (8). Its inclusion property and the electrochemical data of the corresponding tetraquinone 7 are presented.