U. Grieser et K. Hafner, DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF ,8'-DIHYDRO-4,4'-BICYCLO-HEPTA[DEF]FLUORENYLIDENE, A SUBSTITUTED BIFLUORENYLIDENE, Tetrahedron letters, 35(42), 1994, pp. 7759-7762
The chiral title compound 5 has been synthesized by reductive coupling
of rt-butyl-4-oxo-4,8-dihydrocyclohepta[def]fluorene. (4). The free e
nthalpy of activation of the racemization of 5 was determined to 62.9
+/- 0.8 kJ/mol by variable temperature NMR spectroscopy.