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A statistical demonstration of the orthogonality of classical and magnetic aromaticity in fiveand six-membered heterocycles. J Am Chem Soc 111:7–15
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crystallography and modelling of stereoregular polymers to the challenges of complex
systems, International symposium on occasion of the 50th anniversary of the award of the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Giulio Natta and Ziegler, Politecnico di Milano, 21–22 Nov 2013
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thesis, Università degli Studi, Milano, Italy
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subtle electron delocalization effects and appraises their transferability properties in crystals.
Acta Cryst B, invited feature article under review
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New York
41. Cysewski P (2011) Influence of thermal vibrations on aromaticity of benzene. Phys Chem
Chem Phys 13:12998–13008
42. Breslow R (1973) Antiaromaticity. Acc Chem Res 6:393–398
43. Pal R, Mukherjee S, Chandrasekhar S et al (2014) Exploring cyclopentadienone antiaromaticity:
charge density studies of various tetracyclones. J Phys Chem A 118:3479–3489
44. Anslyn EV, Dougherty DA (2006) Modern physical organic chemistry. University Science
Books
45. Yao T, Yu H, Vermeij RJ et al (2008) Nonplanar aromatic compounds. Part 10: a strategy for
the synthesis of aromatic belts-all wrapped up or down the tubes? Pure Appl Chem 80:533–
546
46. Bodwell GJ, Bridson JN, Cyrañski MK et al (2003) Nonplanar aromatic compounds. 8.
Synthesis, crystal structures, and aromaticity investigations of the 1, n-Dioxa[n](2,7)
pyrenophanes. How does bending affect the cyclic π-electron delocalization of the pyrene
system? J Org Chem 68:2089–2098
47. Dobrowolski MA, Cyrañski MK, Merner BL et al (2008) Interplay of π-electron delocalization
and strain in [n](2,7)Pyrenophanes. J Org Chem 73:8001–8009
48. Claessens CG, González-Rodríguez D, Rodríguez-Morgade MS et al (2014)
Subphthalocyanines, subporphyrazines, and subporphyrins: singular nonplanar aromatic
systems. Chem Rev 114:2192–2277
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Soc 81:6523–6524
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Wilkinson A (eds) Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected
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