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A New Wrinkle in Oligoarylene Architecture

Prof. Graham J. Bodwell

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Prof. Graham J. Bodwell

Chemistry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 283 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL, A1B 3X7 Canada

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First published: 23 June 2017

Graphical Abstract

Bowl me over! A breathtaking bowl-shaped oligoarylene has been created. The structure is analogous to that of corranulene, but instead of twenty sp2-hybridized carbon atoms, the new nanometer-sized molecule has been constructed using twenty 1,3,5-trisubstituted benzene rings.

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