The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Repetitive Diels-Alder reactions for the growth of linear polyacenequinoid derivatives

AD Thomas, LL Miller

Index: Thomas, Alan D.; Miller, Larry L. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1986 ,  vol. 51,  # 22  p. 4160 - 4169

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Citation Number: 58

Abstract

Our goal in this study was to develop a method for the synthesis of linear, multiring, polyquinoidal polyacenes. Such compounds are of theoretical and perhaps practical interest because of their electronic properties. Considered in the context of polyacene hydrocarbons, like hexacene, quinoidal derivatives have interesting possibilities for substantially varying the electronic structure of a large molecular framework, and by appropriately choosing ...