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Pleiadene dimerization and its application to the construction of novel carbon networks
Sastre, Angela,Srdanov, Gordana,Wudl, Fred
, p. 289 - 296 (1999)
The synthesis of the anti- and syn-pleiadene dimers 2 has been carried out in solution and in the solid state from (6b-10b- dihydrobenzo[j]cyclobut[a]acenaphthylene) (3). The structures of the anti- and syn-2 dimers were determined by X-ray crystallography and by NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. An exhaustive thermal analysis of the two dimers has been carried out, establishing that the equilibrium for their interconversion occurs via pleiadene as an intermediate species. Vinyl-6b- 10b-dihydrobenzo[j]cyclobut[a]acenaphthylene (5) has been synthesized and used as a pre-monomer for the preparation of poly(pleiadene) dimer through either thermal or photochemical polymerization.
