Tetra[2,3-thienylene]: A building block for single-molecule electromechanical actuators

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 124, Issue 42, 2002, Pages 12507-12510

  Marsella, Michael J ^a   Reid, Rodney J ^a   Estassi, Samia ^a   Wang, Li Sheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATORS;

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DIMERIZATION; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REDOX REACTIONS;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS;

ANNULENE DERIVATIVE; DIMER; POLYMER; TETRAKIS(2,3 THIENYLENE); THIOPHENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DENSITY; DIMERIZATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

EID: 0037164082     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0255352     Document Type: Article

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