Perfluoroaryltetrahedranes: tetrahedranes with extended sigma-pi conjugation

Masaaki Nakamoto1, Yusuke Inagaki, Motoaki Nishina

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan.

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