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Cover Picture: “Sulflower”: A New Form of Carbon Sulfide (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44/2006)
Author(s) -
Chernichenko Konstantin Yu.,
Sumerin Viktor V.,
Shpanchenko Roman V.,
Balenkova Elizabeth S.,
Nenajdenko Valentine G.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200690151
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , sulfide , carbon fibers , sulfur , molecule , chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , organic chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering , composite number , composite material
The bloom of a sunflower is used to describe the highly symmetric planar structure of octathio[8]circulene, whose trivial name “sulflower” derives from sulfur and flower (see cover picture). In their Communication on page 7367 ff., V. G. Nenajdenko and co‐workers describe the synthesis and characterization of sulflower, a molecule that can be considered as a new form of carbon sulfide and as an oligothiophene, that is, as both inorganic and organic. (Background picture: “Sunflowers” by Vincent van Gogh. Copyright: Neue Pinakothek, Munich.)