Synthesis 2008(22): 3615-3618  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1083209
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Synthesis of Extended Bifunctional Triptycenes

Jiří Rybáček, Jiří Závada, Petr Holý*
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo n. 2., 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Publication History

Received 25 June 2008
Publication Date:
23 October 2008 (online)

Abstract

Extended triptycenes 5a,b and 7a-c have been designed to serve as convenient building blocks for a stepwise ramification of the parent triptycene structure by Diels-Alder oligomerization.