A six-carbon 10π-electron aromatic system supported by group 3 metals

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Huang, Wenliang ^a   Dulong, Florian ^b   Wu, Tianpin ^c,d   Khan, Saeed I ^a   Miller, Jeffrey T ^c   Cantat, Thibault ^b   Diaconescu, Paula L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIF   (France)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; AZULENE; BENZENE; BENZENE TETRAANION; IODINE; IRON; NAPHTHALENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTRIUM;

BENZENE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON; ION; LIGAND; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BENZENE; CARBON; ELECTRONS; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; MAGNETIC PHENOMENA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84874598716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2473     Document Type: Article

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