Radical cation and dication of fluorene fully annelated with bicyclo[2.2.2]octene units: Importance of the quinoidal resonance structure in the cationic fluorene

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Volumn 4, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 4117-4120

  Nishinaga, Tohru ^a   Inoue, Ryota ^a   Matsuura, Akira ^a   Komatsu, Koichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0037745849     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol026841n     Document Type: Article

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