Stabilization of the 1-naphthyltropylium ion by [2.2] paracyclophane fixed at the face-to-face position to the tropylium ring

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)60067-9

The title cation, in which [2.2]paracyclophane and the tropylium ring are rigidly fixed at the face-to-face arrangement, was synthesized, and was found to exhibit the highest stability in a series of (8-substituted 1-naphthyl)tropylium ions prepared so fa