Proaromaticity: Organic charge-transfer chromophores with small HOMO-LUMO gaps

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 9592-9605

  Wu, Yi Lin ^a   Bureš, Filip ^b   Jarowski, Peter D ^a   Schweizer, W Bernd ^a   Boudon, Corinne ^c   Gisselbrecht, Jean Paul ^c   Diederich, François ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARDUBICE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Annulenes; Aromaticity; Computational chemistry; Conjugation; Donor acceptor systems

Indexed keywords

ANNULENES; AROMATICITIES; CARBOCYCLES; CONJUGATION; DONOR-ACCEPTOR SYSTEM; HOMO-LUMO GAPS; MAGNETIC ENVIRONMENTS; NEAR-IR; NUCLEUS-INDEPENDENT CHEMICAL SHIFTS; OPTICAL GAP; ORGANIC CHARGE; PUSH-PULL CHROMOPHORES; TETRAKIS;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIZATION; BOND LENGTH; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHROMOPHORES; GROUND STATE; ORGANIC POLYMERS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 77955836308     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201001051     Document Type: Article

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