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Corannulene Tetraanion: A Novel Species with Concentric Anionic Rings
Author(s) -
Ayalon Art,
Rabinovitz Mordecai,
Cheng PeiChao,
Scott Lawrence T.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199216361
Subject(s) - corannulene , annulene , lithium (medication) , chemistry , concentric , nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy , computational chemistry , fullerene , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , mathematics , medicine , geometry , endocrinology
Described as an annulene‐within‐an‐annulene , the tetraanion 2 of corannulene ( 1 ) was prepared by reducing 1 with lithium at −78 °C and then investigated by NMR spectroscopy. Compounds with concentric aromatic rings have long been sought.