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Preparation of a Corannulene-functionalized Hexahelicene by Copper(I)-catalyzed Alkyne-azide Cycloaddition of Nonplanar Polyaromatic Units
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Electron-rich carbon nanorings as macrocyclic hosts for fullerenes
Koji Miki1, Tsuyoshi Matsushita, Yuki Inoue
1Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. kojimiki@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp ohe@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 30, 2013
Abstract:
Electron-rich cycloparaphenyleneacetylenes as well as their twin "glasses-like" conjugates form stable complexes with fullerenes.
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