Tunneling by 16 Carbons: Planar Bond Shifting in [16]Annulene

Michel, CS; Lampkin, PP; Shezaf, JZ; Moll, JF; Castro, C; Karney, WL

Castro, C; Karney, WL (reprint author), Univ San Francisco, Dept Chem, 2130 Fulton St, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2019; 141 (13): 5286

Abstract

Midsized annulenes are known to undergo rapid pi-bond shifting. Given that heavy-atom tunneling plays a role in planar bond shifting of cyclobutadiene......

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