Direct Triple Annulations: A Way to Design Large Triazastarphenes with Intertwined Hexagonal Packing

Qian Li1, Chady Moussallem1,2, Frédéric Castet1

  • 1Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ISM, UMR 5255, 351 Cours de la Libération, F-33405 Cedex Talence, France.

Organic Letters
|December 15, 2021
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