Crystallographic evidence of an unusual, pentagon-shaped folding pattern in a circular aromatic pentamer

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 5127-5130

  Qin, Bo ^a   Chen, Xiuying ^b   Fang, Xiao ^a   Shu, Yingying ^a   Yip, Yeow Kwan ^a   Yan, Yan ^a   Pan, Siyan ^a   Ong, Wei Qiang ^a   Ren, Changliang ^a   Su, Haibin ^b   Zeng, Huaqiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CYCLIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYCLIZATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

EID: 58149197865     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol801980h     Document Type: Article

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