Anions and polyanions of oligoindenopyrenes: Modes of electron delocalization and dimerization

Chemistry - An Asian Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 678-685

  Aprahamian, Ivan ^a,d   Wegner, Hermann A ^b,c   Sternfeld, Tamar ^a   Rauch, Karsten ^c   De Meijere, Armin ^c   Sheradsky, Tuvia ^a   Scott, Lawrence T ^b   Rabinovitz, Mordecai ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromaticity; Carbanions; Polyanions; Pyrene; Reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845249447     PISSN: 18614728     EISSN: 1861471X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asia.200600174     Document Type: Article

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