Journal Article
Chem. Commun., vol. 50, iss. 47, pp. 6263-6266, 2014
Authors
Tyler T. Clikeman, Eric V. Bukovsky, Igor V. Kuvychko, Long K. San, Shihu H. M. Deng, Xue-Bin Wang, Yu-Sheng Chen, Steven H. Strauss, Olga V. Boltalina
Abstract
A family of highly trifluoromethylated azulenes prepared in a single-step high-temperature gas-phase reaction of azulene with CF3I exhibit outstanding electron accepting properties in the gas-phase and in solution that are linearly correlated with the number of CF3 groups.
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