An Experimental Estimation of Aromaticity Relative to that of Benzene. The Synthesis and NMR Properties of a Series of Highly Annelated Dimethyldihydropyrenes: Bridged Benzannulenes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1514-1532

  Mitchell, Reginald H ^a   Iyer, Vivekanantan S ^a   Khalifa, Nasr ^a   Mahadevan, Ramanathan ^a   Venugopalan, Santhanagopalan ^a   Weerawarna, Sirimevan Ananda ^a   Zhou, Pengzu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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EID: 0000303867     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja00110a008     Document Type: Article

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