A high-yield, one-step synthesis of o-phenylene ethynylene cyclic trimer via precipitation-driven alkyne metathesis

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 10198-10201

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Brombosz, Scott M ^a   Mendoza, Jose L ^a   Moore, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); THERMODYNAMICS;

ALKYNE METATHESIS; DYNAMIC COVALENT CHEMISTRY;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

2 PHENYLENE ETHYNYLENE; ALKYNE; ANNULENE DERIVATIVE; MACROCYCLIC COMPOUND; NANOTUBE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PRECIPITATION; SONOGASHIRA REACTION; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 28144463382     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo0517803     Document Type: Article

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