Synthesis and self-association properties of diethynylbenzene macrocycles

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 52, 1996, Pages 9325-9328

  Tobe, Yoshito ^a   Utsumi, Naoto ^a   Kawabata, Kazuya ^a   Naemura, Koichiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE DERIVATIVE; MACROCYCLIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030599667     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(97)82954-1     Document Type: Article

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