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Negative Additive Manufacturing of Complex Shaped Boron Carbides
Published on: September 18, 2018
A buckybowl with a lot of potential: C5-C20H5(CF3)5
Igor V Kuvychko1, Sarah N Spisak, Yu-Sheng Chen
1Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 80523, USA.
Abstract:
Lots of potential: a trifluoromethylated corannulene, C(5)-C(20)H(5)(CF(3))(5), has been prepared and characterized spectroscopically and by X-ray crystallography. The structure exhibits a highly ordered bowl stacking that is unusual for corannulenes with acyclic substituents. The first reduction of C(5)-C(20)H(5)(CF(3))(5) is anodically shifted by 0.95 V, making it the strongest corannulene-based electron acceptor to date.
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