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Aromatic Ring Contraction

Aromatic Ring Contraction is a synthetic organic chemistry methodology involving the structural modification of an aromatic ring system through the reduction of ring size while preserving aromaticity, distinguished from other ring transformations by its specific emphasis on generating smaller, stabilized aromatic cores from larger precursors.

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Molecular geometry of substituted benzene derivatives.I. On the nature of the ring deformations induced by substitution

Aldo Domenicano, A. Vaciago, C. A. Coulson · Acta Crystallographica Section B · 1975 · 307 citations

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Stabilization of anti-aromatic and strained five-membered rings with a transition metal

Congqing Zhu, Shunhua Li, Ming Luo et al. · Nature Chemistry · 2013 · 292 citations

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Condensed Cyclobutane Aromatic Systems. V. The Synthesis of Some α-Diazoindanones: Ring Contraction in the Indane Series

Michael P. Cava, Robert L. Litle, D. R. Napier · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1958 · 207 citations

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Exact method for the calculation of pseudorotation parameters<i>P</i>, τ<sub><i>m</i></sub>and their errors. A comparison of the Altona–Sundaralingam and Cremer–Pople treatment of puckering of five-membered rings

S. T. Rao, E. Westhof, M. Sundaralingam · Acta Crystallographica Section A · 1981 · 201 citations

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Non‐Pyrolytic, Large‐Scale Synthesis of Trichalcogenasumanene: A Two‐Step Approach

Xuexiang Li, Yongtao Zhu, Jiafeng Shao et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2013 · 149 citations · Full text

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  1. CW
    Curt Wentrup

    The University of Queensland, Australia

    8 publications · 319 citations

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  2. LF
    Luiz F. Silva

    Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

    5 publications · 122 citations

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    H. C. VAN DER PLAS

    Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences, Netherlands

    4 publications · 70 citations

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  4. HM
    Helena M. C. Ferraz

    Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

    4 publications · 81 citations

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  5. CW
    Charles W. Rees

    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 50 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    10 h-index

    41 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. Universidade de São Paulo

    São Paulo, Brazil

    6 h-index

    17 publications

    723 citations

  3. Institut de Chimie

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    490 citations

  4. N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry

    Moscow, Russia

    5 h-index

    16 publications

    298 citations

  5. University of Liverpool

    Liverpool, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    12 publications

    259 citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    11 publications

    205 citations

  7. University of Basel

    Basel, Switzerland

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    379 citations

  8. The University of Osaka

    Osaka, Japan

    4 h-index

    18 publications

    668 citations

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  1. Journal of the American Chemical Society

    JACS · 38 publications · 1.8K citations

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  2. The Journal of Organic Chemistry

    JOC · 51 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. Organic Letters

    OL · 19 publications · 727 citations

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  4. Tetrahedron

    18 publications · 455 citations

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