title: Synthesis and structural analysis of a highly curved buckybowl containing corannulene and sumanene fragments.
abstract: Buckybowls 7, 9, and 10 were prepared from benzo[k]fluoranthene 6 and fluoranthene 8 using straightforward procedures involving key palladium-catalyzed cyclization reactions. The structures of bowl-shaped molecules 7 and 10 were determined by using X-ray crystallographic methods. The observed p-orbital axis vector (POAV) angle of 7 was found to be 12.8°.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1 Ta-Hsueh Road, 70101 Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Tsun-Cheng
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Hsin-Ju
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Hsin
authors.forename: Ming-Yu
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: Ching-Hsiu
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yao-Ting
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D003500:Cyclization; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010165:Palladium / Q000737:chemistry; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; C434863:corannulene; C505028:sumanene; D010165:Palladium