Synthesis and electronic properties of conjugated pentacene dimers

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 4779-4782

  Lehnherr, Dan ^a   Gao, Jianbo ^a   Hegmann, Frank A ^a   Tykwinski, Rik R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 60949102830     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol801886h     Document Type: Article

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