1. The pursuit of percholorotriphenylene
- Author
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Shibata, Kazusato, Kulkarni, Abhijit A., Ho, Douglas M., and Pascal, Robert A., Jr.
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Polycyclic aromatic compounds -- Research ,Conformational analysis -- Observations ,Biological sciences ,Chemistry - Abstract
X-ray investigations of perchlorotriphenylene, a polycyclic aromatic chlorocarbon synthesized from tetrachlorophthalic anhydride, indicate a C2 conformation for this compound. It is stable under normal conditions, despite a distortion from planarity. Even in gas phase, the C2 conformation is favored, as is evident from MO and semiempirical calculations. This suggests the ability of the compound to undergo enantiomerization and its flexible nature.
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- 1995