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An Extraordinarily Twisted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon
Author(s) -
Qiao Xiaoxin,
Ho Douglas M.,
Pascal Robert A.
Publication year - 1997
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.199715311
Subject(s) - planarity testing , polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon , hydrocarbon , decomposition , chemistry , molecule , overcrowding , polycyclic compound , aromaticity , solid state , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , crystallography , economics , economic growth
Overcrowding with phenyl group forces the polycyclic, aromatic hydrocarbons out of planarity. The X‐ray structure analysis of 1 shows that the molecule has a record end‐to‐end twist of 105°; yet it is very stable in the solid state and can be heated to 400°C without decomposition.