The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Truxanes. I. Preparation and characterization of indene photodimers and related compounds

AG Anastassiou, GW Griffin

Index: Anastassiou,A.G.; Griffin,G.W. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1968 , vol. 33, # 9 p. 3441 - 3448

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Abstract

In striking contrast to the high lability of parent cyclobutadiene, predicted initially on theoretical grounds2-8 and subsequently demonstrated experimentally, e-la a number of polybenzenoid cyclobutadienes have been successfully synthesi~ ed'~-~~ and found to display appreciable stability as anticipated from simple Huckel the~ ry.~ On the other hand, nonbenzenoid polycyclic systems incorporating fully trigonal four-membered rings are not ...