Norihito Fukui, Nagoya University, Japan, and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, and colleagues found that an oxidative cleavage of an internal double bond of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon gives a figure-eight-shaped macrocycle.
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News: Twisting Planar Aromatic Compounds into a Figure Eight
Oxidative cleavage of an internal double bond of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) gives a figure-eight-shaped macrocycle
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