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Found at the core of many discotic liquid crystals, triphenylenes can now be synthesized efficiently by the palladium-catalyzed trimerization of arynes, including those containing donor and acceptor substituents [Eq. (a); R=OMe, F].
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Peña et al. (1998) studied this question.
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