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An indenofluorene (IF) is any of five hydrocarbons with formula C
20H
12, whose carbon skeleton is a sequence of five fused rings with 6, 5, 6, 5, and 6 carbon atoms; an arrangement that can be described as the fusion of an indene core and a fluorene core (hence the common name).[2]
The five structural isomers (regioisomers) differ in the way the rings are connected. They have unique properties, applications, and research interests.
The name "indenofluorene" is also commonly used for any derivative of those five compounds (which are then specifically called "parent" or "unsubstituted" IFs), conceptually obtained by substituting other functional groups for some hydrogen atoms, and/or by hydrogenating the methylidene bridges (thus turning them into methylene bridges). Most IF synthesis and research work is done on these derivatives
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