Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

Since the first synthetic report in 2003 by Sakurai et al., sumanene (derived from the Indian ‘Hindi as well as Sanskrit word’ “Suman”, which means “Sunflower”), a beautifully simple yet much effective bowl-shaped C3-symmetric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having three benzylic positions clipped b...

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Main Authors: Shakeel Alvi, Rashid Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Beilstein-Institut 2020-09-01
Series:Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.16.186