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truxene
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Truxene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. The molecule can be thought of as being made up of three fluorene units arranged symmetrically and sharing a common central benzene. Truxene is solid, and it is slightly soluble in water.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C27H18
- Molecular weight
- 342.4 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- heptacyclo[18.7.0.02,10.03,8.011,19.012,17.021,26]heptacosa-1,3,5,7,10,12,14,16,19,21,23,25-dodecaene
- SMILES
- C1C2=CC=CC=C2C3=C4CC5=CC=CC=C5C4=C6CC7=CC=CC=C7C6=C31
- InChIKey
- YGPLLMPPZRUGTJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 7.4
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 342.140850576
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- canonical SMILES
- C1C2=CC=CC=C2C3=C4CC5=CC=CC=C5C4=C6CC7=CC=CC=C7C6=C31
- chemical formula
- C₂₇H₁₈
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Preparation
- Uses
- References
Truxene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. The molecule can be thought of as being made up of three fluorene units arranged symmetrically and sharing a common central benzene. Truxene is solid, and it is slightly soluble in water.
==History== Truxene has been known since the end of the 19th century. J. Hausmann came across it in 1889 while investigating the reactions of 3-phenylpropionic acid with phosphorus pentoxide. He could not determine the exact structure but assumed it was a cyclic trimer of 1-indanone. According to him, it was formed by the condensation of 1-indanone resulting from intramolecular acylation of 3-phenylpropanoic acid.
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