Convergent synthesis of columnar twins and tetramers from triphenylene building blocks - The first example of a columnar spiro-twin

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2499-2506

  Schulte, Jörg L ^a   Laschat, Sabine ^a   Vill, Volkmar ^b   Nishikawa, Etsushi ^c   Finkelmann, Heino ^c   Nimtz, Manfred ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discotic oligomers; Discotic twins; Liquid crystals; Spiro compounds; Triphenylene

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002546176     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0690(199811)1998:11<2499::AID-EJOC2499>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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