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    Benzene is an organic chemical compound with the molecular formula C6H6. The benzene molecule is composed of six carbon atoms joined in a planar hexagonal...
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  • late 1950s by Dewar and White, but more recent advances have enabled the synthesis, characterization, and functionalization of these benzene isosteres. The...
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    difluorophosphate-bridged complex [(η5-C5Me5)Rh(μ-OPF2O)3Rh(η5-C5Me5)]PF6. Hexamethyl Dewar benzene (C6Me6) undergoes an unusual rearrangement reaction with hydrohalic...
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    cyclobutadiene reacts with electron-deficient alkynes to form a Dewar benzene: The Dewar benzene converts to dimethyl phthalate on heating at 90 °C. One cyclobutadiene...
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    rhodium trichloride with hexamethyl Dewar benzene This complex was first prepared from hexamethyl Dewar benzene and RhCl3(H2O)3. The hydrohalic acid...
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    (1869) and James Dewar (1871) suggested that, in analogy between quinoline and naphthalene, the structure of pyridine is derived from benzene by substituting...
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    formula C6(CH3)6. It is an aromatic compound and a derivative of benzene, where benzene's six hydrogen atoms have each been replaced by a methyl group. In...
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  • described its reactions as being typical of aromatic compounds such as benzene. The name ferrocene was coined by Mark Whiting, a postdoc with Woodward...
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    6-diisopropylphenyl)-4,5-dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene (SIPr) (with Dipp substituents). In benzene, the Dipp substituted NHC reacts with Fe(COT)2 to produce large black rhomboidal...
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  • with ammonia in ethanol. In 1871, the English chemist and physicist James Dewar speculated that picoline was methylpyridine. If the structure of pyridine...
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    prepared by the reaction of hydrated iridium trichloride with hexamethyl Dewar benzene. More conveniently, the compound is prepared by the reaction of hydrated...
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    reactive class of borirene derivatives, where the borirene ring is fused to a benzene ring via a shared C=C bond. DFT calculations suggest that the local aromaticity...
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    benzene ring, as well as such a change adding asymmetrical molecular volume to the otherwise planar arene ring unit of the molecule. (cf. the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson...
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    cordite instead, which had been developed by Sir Frederick Abel and Sir James Dewar of the United Kingdom in 1889. The original Cordite Mk I consisted of 58%...
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    complexes". These species are typically yellow solids. One example is (benzene)chromium tricarbonyl. Alkyl and aryl organolithium reagents (RLi) add to...
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    in situ from a benzene compound attached to a triflate and a trimethylsilyl substituent in the ortho- positions and reacts with a di-yne such as 1,7-octadiyne...
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    Metal carbonyls are soluble in nonpolar and polar organic solvents such as benzene, diethyl ether, acetone, glacial acetic acid, and carbon tetrachloride...
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  • Thumbnail for Hexaphosphabenzene
    benzene-like D6h structure. In increasing order of energy these are: benzvalene, prismane, chair, Dewar benzene, bicyclopropenyl, distorted benzene,...
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  • Michael Faraday (1791–1867), British chemist and physicist, discovered Benzene Hermann von Fehling (1812–1885), German chemist John Bennett Fenn (1917–2010)...
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    ISBN 978-0-471-72091-1 Baptista, Maurício S.; Cadet, Jean; Mascio, Paolo Di; Ghogare, Ashwini A.; Greer, Alexander; Hamblin, Michael R.; Lorente, Carolina;...
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    complex substances” "The discovery of the facts relating to para-amino-benzene sulfonamide." “for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized” "The...
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    ferrocene undergoes similar reactions to a typical aromatic molecule (such as benzene), Ernst Otto Fischer deduced the sandwich structure and also began synthesising...
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