Polyaromatic ribbons from oligo-alkynes via selective radical cascade: Stitching aromatic rings with polyacetylene bridges

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 134, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 9609-9614

  Byers, Philip M ^a   Alabugin, Igor V ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC RINGS; FUNCTIONALIZED; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; POLYAROMATICS; RADICAL CYCLIZATIONS; RADICAL GENERATION;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIZATION; GRAPHENE; OLIGOMERS;

ACETYLENE;

ALKYNE; GRAPHENE; NANORIBBON; OLIGOMER; POLYACETYLENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONJUGATION; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; CYCLIZATION; DIELS ALDER REACTION; NANOANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84862222135     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja3023626     Document Type: Article

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