Angewandte
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d) X. M. Hong, H. E. Katz, A. J. Lovinger, B.-C. Wang, K.
Keywords: boron · conjugation · cyclic voltammetry ·
electron transport · heterocycles
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CCDC-292025 (1a), CCDC-292026 (2), and CCDC-292027 (4)
contain the supplementary crystallographic data for this paper.
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