Posts Tagged ‘Extreme umpolung’

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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