First stable 7,7,8,8-tetraaryl-o-quinodimethane: isolation, X-ray structure, electrochromic response of 9,10-bis(dianisylmethylene)-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene.
Oxidative cyclization of 2,2'-bis(dianisylethenyl)biphenyl yielded the dicationic salt of phenanthrene-9,10-diylbis(dianisylmethylium), which in turn afforded the severely congested title molecule as the first stable tetraaryl-o-quinodimethane derivative upon reduction.
Iwashita
Shinichi
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Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
Ohta
Eisuke
E
Higuchi
Hiroki
H
Kawai
Hidetoshi
H
Fujiwara
Kenshu
K
Ono
Kazunori
K
Takenaka
Masami
M
Suzuki
Takanori
T