Issue 21, 1997

Buckybowls: a simple, conceptually new synthesis of C2v-semibuckminsterfullerene (C30H12, [5,5]-fulvalene circulene)

Abstract

An extremely simple synthesis of decacyclic, C30H12 ‘buckybowl’ 2 from m-xylene, employing a strategy of wider applicability for the synthesis of diverse curved aromatic surfaces, is described.

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Chem. Commun., 1997, 2081-2082

Buckybowls: a simple, conceptually new synthesis of C2v-semibuckminsterfullerene (C30H12, [5,5]-fulvalene circulene)

G. Mehta and G. Panda, Chem. Commun., 1997, 2081 DOI: 10.1039/A706336I

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