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A metal-free "threading-followed-by-shrinking" protocol for rotaxane synthesis
Hsueh, Sheng-Yao,Ko, Jia-Ling,Lai, Chien-Chen,Liu, Yi-Hung,Peng, Shie-Ming,Chiu, Sheng-Hsien
, p. 6643 - 6646 (2011)
Shrinking ring size: Synthesis of a [2]rotaxane has employed photoextrusion of SO2 from the arylmethyl sulfone motif of a [2]pseudorotaxane. A dumbbell-shaped guest molecule allows a shrinking reaction to decrease the number of atoms in the rin
