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Synfacts 2009(8): 0855-0855  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1217466
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Sondheimer’s Chemistry Gets 3D

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Jose M. Lobez
C. Werner, H. Hopf*, J. Grunenberg, L. Ernst, P. G. Jones, F. Köhler, R. Herges
Technische Universität Braunschweig and Universität Kiel, Germany
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23 July 2009 (online)

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Significance

Sondheimer’s annulene chemistry for the synthesis of fully conjugated cyclic compounds is applied to obtain three-dimensional conjugated cyclophanes 2 and 4. Both compounds 2 and 4 are doubly twisted annulenes.