On the inversion barrier in tetrabenzocy
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C.J. Finder; D. Chung; N.L. Allinger
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Article
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1972
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Elsevier Science
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French
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## Recently Figeys and Dralantsl reported that the barrier to inversion of tetrabeneocyclooctatetraene (TBCOT) was 5 kcal/mol, using the nmr decoalescence of two diastereomeric methyl groups in a substituted derivative. Other cyclooctatetraene derivatives show much higher barriers to inversion tha