Photochemical Skeletal Editing: One-Step Transformation of Diaryl Dithiophenes into Regiodefined Helicenes
Shi, Xiaoli; Mei, Ling; Dong, Chenxi; Zhao, Chunmei; Chen, Chen; Xu, Yimin; Xu, Wan; Li, Chunli; Wang, Guangxia; Ma, Zhiying; Wang, Hua; Chemical Science  (2026) –; doi:10.1039/D6SC01717G

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_publ_section_title
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 Photochemical skeletal editing: one-step transformation of diaryl
 dithiophenes into regiodefined helicenes.
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Olex2 1.2 
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2025-08-09 deposited with the CCDC.	2026-03-25 downloaded from the CCDC.
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'SADABS-2016/2 (Bruker,2016/2) was used for absorption correction. wR2(int) was 0.0957 before and 0.0585 after correction.'
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'Adding full bibliography for 1576969--1576975.cif.'
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1. Fixed Uiso 
 At 1.2 times of: 
  All C(H) groups 
2.a Aromatic/amide H refined with riding coordinates: 
 C12(H12), C13(H13), C14(H14), C15(H15), C16(H16), C17(H17), C18(H18), 
 C19(H19), C21(H21), C22(H22), C23(H23), C24(H24), C25(H25), C26(H26), C27(H27), 
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