Issue 11, 2008
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Chemical Communications

π-Conjugated macrocycles from thiophenes and benzenes†

J. Sreedhar Reddya  and  Venkataramanarao G. Anand*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Chemical Sciences & Technology Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology (Formerly RRL – Trivandrum), CSIR, Trivandrum, India

b Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, 900, NCL Innovation Park, Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune, India
E-mail: vg.anand@iiserpune.ac.in
Fax: +91-20-25898022
Tel: +91-20-25898021

Abstract

π-Conjugated macrocycles consisting of thiophenes and benzenes exhibit benzenoid features for 4nπ macrocycles, whereas (4n + 2)π macrocycles are annulenoid due to rapid interconversion between quinoid and Kekule canonical forms in the benzene units.

Graphical abstract: π-Conjugated macrocycles from thiophenes and benzenes

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B715553K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
09 Oct 2007
Accepted
11 Dec 2007
First published
11 Jan 2008

Chem. Commun., 2008, 1326-1328

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J. Sreedhar Reddy and V. G. Anand, Chem. Commun., 2008, 1326 DOI: 10.1039/B715553K

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