Isomerization of linear to angular [3]phenylene and PAHs under flash vacuum pyrolysis conditions.
[structure: see text]. Flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP) of linear [3]phenylene affords its angular counterpart and the same mixture of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon isomers as that observed on FVP of angular [3]phenylene. A mechanism, supported by a 13C labeling study, is proposed to explain these results.
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Center for New Directions in Organic Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-1460, USA.
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