Antiaromaticity and reactivity of a planar cyclooctatetraene fully annelated with bicyclo[2.1.1]hexane units

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2067-2074

  Nishinaga, Tohru ^a,c   Uto, Takayuki ^a   Inoue, Ryota ^a   Matsuura, Akira ^a   Treitel, Noach ^b   Rabinovitz, Mordecai ^b   Komatsu, Koichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiaromaticity; Bicyclo 2.1.1 hexene; Cyclooctatetraene; Reduction; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HEXANE;

ANTIAROMATICITY; BICYCLO[2.1.1]HEXENE; CYCLOOCTATETRAENE; REDUCTION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHEMICAL REACTIVITY;

BICYCLO COMPOUND; CYCLOOCTANE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM THEORY; STANDARD; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BICYCLO COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYCLOOCTANES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; QUANTUM THEORY; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 53849118166     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200701405     Document Type: Article

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