Antiaromaticity in distal bisfluorenyl dications separated by multiple discrete spacer units

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 5605-5608

  Dahl, Bart J ^a   Mills, Nancy S ^a  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60949088454     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol802389n     Document Type: Article

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