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Synfacts 2010(2): 0164-0164  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1219086
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Electroactive Switches

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Trisha L. Andrew
N. Weibel, A. Mishchenko, T. Wandlowski*, M. Neuburger, Y. Leroux, M. Mayor*
University of Basel, University of Bern, Switzerland and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Germany
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21 January 2010 (online)

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Significance

The synthesis of a macrocyclic rod (1) that is potentially capable of behaving as a redox-driven switch is reported. Macrocycle 1 contains a catechol moiety that was found to display well-behaved electrochemistry in solution.