cyclobenzannulation

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cyclobenzannulation (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) The formation or expansion of a ring by the introduction of one or more fused benzene rings.
- 2015 June 18, Grant J Sherborne, Bao N Nguyen, “Recent XAS studies into Homogeneous metal catalyst in fine chemical and pharmaceutical syntheses”, in Chemistry Central Journal‎^[1], volume 9, →DOI:
  Scheme 1 Novel intermediates detected by XAS in a Au-catalysed cyclobenzannulation Hashmi and Bertagnolli also employed XAS to investigate the oxidation state of the gold catalyst in an Au-catalysed oxidative esterification.