title: Conformational flexibility of fused tetracenedione propellers obtained from one-pot reductive dimerization of acetylenic quinones.
abstract: Reductive dimerization of acetylenic anthraquinones provides synthetic access to flexible nonplanar polyaromatics with a tetracenedione core. In solution, these nonplanar, contorted polycycles exist as equilibrating mixtures of two symmetric conformers. The fused tetracenediones are easily reduced and exhibit rich electrochemical behavior.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences , 3 Institutskaya Street, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Sergei F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Vasilevsky
authors.forename: Denis S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Baranov
authors.forename: Victor I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Mamatyuk
authors.forename: Dmitry S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Fadeev
authors.forename: Yurii V
authors.initials: YV
authors.lastname: Gatilov
authors.forename: Aleksandr A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Stepanov
authors.forename: Nadezhda V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Vasilieva
authors.forename: Igor V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Alabugin