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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 44, Issue 18, Pages 6560-6577Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5cs00185d
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)
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Kekulene'' is a doughnut-like shaped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of cyclically arrayed benzene rings. It has attracted a great deal of theoretical interest because it is regarded as an ideal model to study conjugation circuits of pi electrons, i.e. whether they delocalize locally in benzene rings or globally throughout the molecule. Though kekulene was synthesized in 1978, it was the only known compound of this class of compounds for a long time. Recently, new kekulene-related molecules, septulene, which is a non-alternant benzenoid hydrocarbon, and a tetracyclopentatetraphenylene (TCPTP) derivative belonging to non-alternant non-benzenoid hydrocarbons, were synthesized. This article presents theoretical and experimental aspects of kekulene-related molecules focusing on the viewpoint of conjugation circuits by classifying them into three types: benzenoid kekulenes including kekulene itself and septulene, yet unknown anti-kekulene and non-alternant non-benzenoid kekulenes represented by TCPTP.
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