1419182-08-3Relevant articles and documents
Septulene: The heptagonal homologue of kekulene
Kumar, Bharat,Viboh, Ruth L.,Bonifacio, Margel C.,Thompson, William B.,Buttrick, Jonathan C.,Westlake, Babe C.,Kim, Min-Soo,Zoellner, Robert W.,Varganov, Sergey A.,Moerschel, Philipp,Teteruk, Jaroslav,Schmidt, Martin U.,King, Benjamin T.
, p. 12795 - 12800 (2012)
A family likeness: The seven-sided homologue of kekulene, septulene (see structure), has been synthesized in seven steps by ring-closing metathesis. Its properties (spectroscopic and structural) are strikingly similar to those of kekulene despite its sevenfold symmetry and resulting non-alternant structure. The chair-type conformation in the crystal arises from packing forces. Septulene is probably a free pseudorotor in the gas phase. Copyright