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J Am Chem Soc. 2003 Feb 19;125(7):1720-1. doi: 10.1021/ja0291991.

"The great escape" from antiaromaticity: reduction of strained pyrenes.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Ivan Aprahamian, Graham J Bodwell, James J Fleming, Gregory P Manning, Michael R Mannion, Tuvia Sheradsky, Rudolf J Vermeij, Mordecai Rabinovitz

Affiliations

  1. Department of Organic Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.

PMID: 12580596 DOI: 10.1021/ja0291991

Abstract

The two-electron reduction of strained pyrenes ([7](2,7)pyrenophanes) with lithium metal leads to the formation of a new sigma-bond as a means to "escape" strained antiaromaticity.

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