Evidence for a ball-shaped cyclen cyclophane: an experimental and first principles study.
Conformational isomerism of a ball-shaped cyclophane of cyclen was studied using NMR and computational methods with the most notable conformer containing a highly symmetric cyclic benzene tetramer.
Hill
Jonathan P
JP
Supermolecules Group, WPI-Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Jonathan.Hill@nims.go.jp
Scipioni
Roberto
R
Boero
Mauro
M
Wakayama
Yutaka
Y
Akada
Misaho
M
Miyazaki
Tsuyoshi
T
Ariga
Katsuhiko
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