Rainer Diercks

Tris(benzocyclobutadieno)benzene, the triangular [4]phenylene with a completely bond-fixed cyclohexatriene ring: cobalt-catalyzed synthesis from hexaethynylbenzene and thermal ring opening to 1,2:5,6:9,10-tribenzo-3,4,7,8,11,12-hexadehydro[12]annulene

Rainer Diercks, K. Peter C. Vollhardt · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1986 · 210 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Catalysis +11

Hexaethynylbenzene

Rainer Diercks, James C. Armstrong, Roland Boese et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1986 · 145 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Crystal Structure +7

Novel Synthesis of the Angular [3]Phenylene (Terphenylene) by Cobalt‐Catalyzed Cyclization of Bis(2‐ethynylphenyl)ethyne: a Molecule with an Internal Cyclohexatriene Ring

Rainer Diercks, K. Peter C. Vollhardt · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1986 · 108 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Catalysis +10

The First Metallacyclopentadiene(Alkyne) Complexes and Their Discrete Isomerization to η⁴-Bound Arenes: The Missing Link in the Prevalent Mechanism of Transition Metal Catalyzed Alkyne Cyclotrimerizations, as Exemplified by Cyclopentadienylcobalt

Rainer Diercks, Bruce E. Eaton, Stefan Gürtzgen et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1998 · 96 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Catalysis +14

Elementary Steps in Catalytic 1‐Alkyne Coupling to Substituted Cyclooctatetraenes

Rainer Diercks, Lutz Stamp, Jürgen Kopf et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1984 · 46 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Catalysis +15