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Caroline M Carter1, Jan Brossette1, Hendrik Zipse1
1Department of Chemistry, LMU Munich, Butenandtstraße 5-13, 81377, Munich, Germany.
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Molecular volumes and isotropic polarizabilities of a larger number of carbocyclic π-systems ranging from benzene on the small to heptacene on the large end are provided in order to facilitate the analysis of positively size-dependent catalytic processes, where an increase in substrate or catalyst size leads to an increase in reaction rate and/or reaction stereoselectivity. The utility of this approach is demonstrated for selected stereoselective catalytic processes from the contemporary literature.
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