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Synfacts 2010(2): 0175-0175
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1219088
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1219088
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
© Georg Thieme Verlag
Stuttgart ˙ New YorkChemical Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes
E. H. Fort, P. M. Donovan, L. T. Scott*
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA
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Publication History
Publication Date:
21 January 2010 (online)
Significance
The authors demonstrate the plausibility of metal-free growth of single-chirality carbon nanotubes. Diels-Alder reactions at the bay positions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons become progressively easier as the length increases.