Posts Tagged ‘Aryne’

Forming a stabilized m-benzyne.

Friday, January 20th, 2017

The story so far. Inspired by the report of the most polar neutral compound yet made, I suggested some candidates based on the azulene ring system that if made might be even more polar. This then led to considering a smaller π-analogue of azulene, m-benzyne. Here I ponder how a derivative of this molecule might be made, using computational profiling as one reality check.

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Forking “The most polar neutral compound synthesized” into m-benzyne.

Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

A project fork is defined (in computing) as creating a distinct and separate strand from an existing (coding) project. Here I apply the principle to the polar azulene 4 explored in an earlier post, taking m-benzyne as a lower homologue of azulene as my starting point.

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