Tsuyoshi Sawada, Masaki Wakabayashi, Hiromi Takeo, Akira Miyazawa, Masashi Tashiro, Thies Thiemann and Shuntaro Mataka
Two novel, strained trans-10b,10c-dihydropyrenes, 9a–b, with internal, bulky trimethylsilylmethyl substituent(s) were synthesized. Their 14π-electron annulene systems were found to be distorted, as shown by X-ray crystallographic analyses and 1H-NMR and UV spectroscopy.