The hexamethylpentalene dianion and other reagents for organometallic pentalene chemistry.
Ashley, Andrew E; Cowley, Andrew R; O'Hare, Dermot; Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)  (2007) 1512–1514; doi:10.1039/b702150j

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 The hexamethylpentalene dianion and other reagents for organometallic
 pentalene chemistry.
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'Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)'
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synthesis as described
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KappaCCD software 'DENZO' (Otwinowski & Minor, 1996)
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KappaCCD software 'Collect' (Nonius, 2000)
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KappaCCD software 'DENZO' (Otwinowski & Minor, 1996)
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CRYSTALS (Watkin et al, 2001)
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CRYSTALS (Watkin et al, 2001)
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Nonius KappaCCD
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Denzo/Scalepack (Otwinowski & Minor, 1996)
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The material was crystallised at ambient temperature. A suitable crystal
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Method, part 1, Chebychev polynomial, (Watkin, 1994, Prince, 1982)
[weight] = 1.0/[A~0~*T~0~(x)+A~1~*T~1~(x) ... +A~n-1~]*T~n-1~(x)]
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The following automatic conversions were performed:
'_symmetry_cell_setting' value 'Monoclinic' changed to 'monoclinic'
according to '/home/saulius/struct/CIF-dictionaries/cif_core.dic'
dictionary named 'cif_core.dic' version 2.4.1 from 2010-06-29.

Automatic conversion script
Id: cif_fix_enum 1527 2010-12-29 10:47:43Z saulius 
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