Corannulene Tetraanion: A Novel Species with Concentric Anionic Rings

Art Ayalon, Mordecai Rabinovitz, Pei‐Chao Cheng, Lawrence T. Scott

Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1992 · 162 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

Described as an annulene-within-an-annulene, the tetraanion 2 of corannulene (1) was prepared by reducing 1 with lithium at −78 °C and then investigated by NMR spectroscopy. Compounds with concentric aromatic rings have long been sought.

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