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Tetrakis(3,5-dimethyl-2-thienyl)ethylene and tetrakis(2,5-dimethyl-3-thienyl)ethylene were obtained from the corresponding dithienyl ketones by the McMurry reaction. The photochromic properties of the compounds obtained were studied.
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Dedicated to the Academician N. K. Kochetkov on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
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Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1177–1181, May, 2005.
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Belen'kii, L.I., Gromova, G.P., Kolotaev, A.V. et al. Synthesis and photochromic properties of tetrakis(3,5-dimethyl-2-thienyl)- and tetrakis(2,5-dimethyl-3-thienyl)ethylenes. Russ Chem Bull 54, 1208–1213 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-005-0382-5
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