Beilstein J. Org. Chem.2015,11, 273–279, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.31
eliminations. Structural packing motifs and electronic properties are reported for the tetracenes.
Keywords: allenes; anionic Chugaev rearrangement; anionicsigmatropicrearrangement; tetracene properties; X-ray structures; Introduction
In recent years polyacenes, especially tetra- and pentacenes, have been
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Use of bis-allene intermediates 2 for rapid access to substituted tetracenes [14,16].