Controlling catenations, properties and relative ring-component movements in catenanes with aromatic fluorine substituents

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 119, Issue 51, 1997, Pages 12503-12513

  Ballardini, Roberto ^a   Balzani, Vincenzo ^b   Credi, Alberto ^b   Brown, Christopher L ^c   Gillard, Richard E ^c   Montalti, Marco ^b   Philp, Douglas ^c   Stoddart, J Fraser ^c,f   Venturi, Margherita ^b   White, Andrew J P ^d   Williams, Brian J ^e   Williams, David J ^e  

^a Istituto di Fotochimica e Radiazioni d'Alta Energia   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Chimica   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE DERIVATIVE;

AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031585689     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja970640a     Document Type: Article

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