Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 84(53), p. 11540-11543
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc06798d
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Saddle- and propeller-shaped, partially condensed conjugated macrocycles are synthesized by fourfold Perkin condensation plus fourfold photocyclizations. Their macrocyclic loops are pronouncedly non-planar.