Double Helical Octaphenylene

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition in English)

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 488-491

  Rajca, Andrzej ^a   Safronov, Andrej ^a   Rajca, Suchada ^a   Shoemaker, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arenes; Chirality; Double helices; Polymers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030972602     PISSN: 05700833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199704881     Document Type: Article

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