Synfacts 2009(4): 0389-0389  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1087849
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Attaching Four-Membered Rings to Dibenzobarrelene

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Jeewoo Lim
M. Pillekamp, A. Aniol, J. Heppekausen, S. Neukirchen, S. Seel, I. M. Oppel, G. Dyker*
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
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Publication History

Publication Date:
23 March 2009 (online)

Significance

Dibenzobarrelene (1) and its derivatives are interesting molecules from a materials perspective, and methods of introducing various functional groups onto such architecture possess potential applications in areas such as polymer synthesis and liquid crystal alignment. The authors report a method of introducing the benzo­cyclobutene moiety to a barrelene structure.