Arene-perfluoroarene interactions in crystal engineering: structural preferences in polyfluorinated tolans (2004)
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Smith, C., Smith, P., Thomas, R., Robins, E., Collings, J., Dai, C., …Marder, T. (2004). Arene-perfluoroarene interactions in crystal engineering: structural preferences in polyfluorinated tolans. Journal of materials chemistry, 14(3), 413-420. https://doi.org/10.1039/b314094f

The compounds 4-ROC6F4C[triple bond, length as m-dash]CPh (4) where R = Me (a), Et (b), Prn (c), Pri (d), Bun (e), n-C5H11 (f), PhCH2 (g), PhCH2CH2 (h), 4-MeC6H4 (i), 4-EtC6H4 (j) and menthyl (k), have been prepared by reaction of C6F5C[triple bond,... Read More about Arene-perfluoroarene interactions in crystal engineering: structural preferences in polyfluorinated tolans.

Arene-perfluoroarene interactions in crystal engineering 8: structures of 1 : 1 complexes of hexafluorobenzene with fused-ring polyaromatic hydrocarbons (2002)
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Collings, J., Roscoe, K., Robins, E., Batsanov, A., Stimson, L., Howard, J., …Marder, T. (2002). Arene-perfluoroarene interactions in crystal engineering 8: structures of 1 : 1 complexes of hexafluorobenzene with fused-ring polyaromatic hydrocarbons. New Journal of Chemistry, 26(12), 1740-1746. https://doi.org/10.1039/b207102a

A series of 1:1 complexes of hexafluorobenzene (HFB) with naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, pyrene and triphenylene were prepared and their X-ray crystal structures determined at low temperatures. Each structure contains infinite mixed stacks of... Read More about Arene-perfluoroarene interactions in crystal engineering 8: structures of 1 : 1 complexes of hexafluorobenzene with fused-ring polyaromatic hydrocarbons.

Protonation and subsequent intramolecular hydrogen bonding as a method to control chain structure and tune luminescence in heteroatomic conjugated polymers (2002)
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Monkman, A., Pålsson, L., Higgins, R., Wang, C., Bryce, M., Batsanov, A., & Howard, J. (2002). Protonation and subsequent intramolecular hydrogen bonding as a method to control chain structure and tune luminescence in heteroatomic conjugated polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 124(21), 6049-6055. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja012409%2B

We report the effects of protonation on the structural and spectroscopic properties of 1,4-dimethoxy-2,5-bis(2-pyridyl)benzene (9) and the related AB coploymer poly{2,5-pyridylene-co-1,4-[2,5- bis(2-ethylhexyloxy)]phenylene} (7). X-ray crystallograph... Read More about Protonation and subsequent intramolecular hydrogen bonding as a method to control chain structure and tune luminescence in heteroatomic conjugated polymers.

Charge-density study of the nonlinear optical precursor DED-TCNQ at 20 K (2002)
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Cole, J., Copley, R., McIntyre, G., Howard, J., Szablewski, M., & Cross, G. (2002). Charge-density study of the nonlinear optical precursor DED-TCNQ at 20 K. Physical review B, 65(12), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.65.125107

A charge-density study of the nonlinear-optical (NLO) precursor {4-[bis(diethylamino)-methylium] phenyl}dicyanomethanide (DED-TCNQ), space group P21/c, a=11.174(2)Å; b=12.859(2)Å; c=12.486(2)Å; β=112.00(1)°, is presented. The results derive from a su... Read More about Charge-density study of the nonlinear optical precursor DED-TCNQ at 20 K.