Precursors to endohedral metal fullerene complexes: Synthesis and X-ray structure of a flexible acetylenic cyclophane C60H18

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 118, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 5308-5309

  Rubin, Yves ^a   Parker, Timothy C ^a   Khan, Saeed I ^a   Holliman, Christopher L ^b   McElvany, Stephen W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROCARBONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANOMETALLICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

FLEXIBLE ACETYLENIC CYCLOPHANES; METAL FULLERENE COMPLEXES;

FULLERENES;

ARTICLE; BROMINATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PYROLYSIS; SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0030570266     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9606384     Document Type: Article

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