corannulene

See also: corannulène

English
C20H10

Noun

corannulene (plural corannulenes)

  1. (organic chemistry) Any of a group of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (circulenes) containing at least one ring of five fused benzene rings and thus having a non-planar form reminiscent of a bowl that is a fragment of buckminsterfullerene; a buckybowl.
  2. (organic chemistry) The parent compound of this group
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