Journal of the American Chemical Society

Synthesis of polyphenylenes and polynaphthalenes by thermolysis of enediynes and dialkynylbenzenes

JA John, JM Tour

Index: John, Jens A.; Tour, James M. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1994 , vol. 116, # 11 p. 5011 - 5012

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Citation Number: 106

Abstract

Bergman's study on the thermal cycloaromatization of enediynes led to the suggestion of a benzene 1, 4-diradical intermediate.'Numerous synthetic and mechanistic studies were later performed to further investigate this reaction, and a variety of enediynes have been thermalized in the presence of radical terminators such as 1, 4-cyclohexadiene (eq l). lv2 Even though