@article{121829b85fd1400ea9fbf469338a05a2,
title = "Base-catalyzed condensation of cyclopentadiene derivatives. Synthesis of fulvalene analogues: Strong proaromatic electron acceptors",
abstract = "A series of proaromatic electron acceptors derived from fulvenes were synthesized from tetrachlorocyclopentadiene and previously unknown 1,4-dicyano- and 1,4-dialkoxycarbonyl-2,3-dimethoxy cyclopentadienes. Two reversible one-electron reductions steps observed for fulvalenes coalesce into one two-electron reduction step upon increasing the length of the conjugating bridge.",
keywords = "Condensation, Electron acceptors, Fulvalene",
author = "Emad Aqad and Philippe Leriche and Gilles Mabon and Alain Gorgues and Magali Allain and Am{\'e}d{\'e}e Riou and Arkady Ellern and Vladimir Khodorkovsky",
note = "Funding Information: V. Kh. thanks Pole de Recherche et d'Innovation d'Angers (PRIA) for financial support of his stay. E. A. thanks the French Foreign Office (Bourse Chateaubriand) and Region Pays de la Loire for financial support during his postdoctoral stay. The authors thank the SCAS of Angers for spectroscopic measurements.",
year = "2003",
month = jul,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1016/S0040-4020(03)00877-9",
language = "English",
volume = "59",
pages = "5773--5782",
journal = "Tetrahedron",
issn = "0040-4020",
publisher = "Elsevier Ltd.",
number = "30",
}