Sumanene derivatives[8] such asnaphtosumanene[9] andtrisialsumanene[10][11] have been described. Chiral sumanenes are of some interest with respect toinherent chirality,[12] examples are chiraltrimethylsumanene[13] and a chiral sumanene cyclopentadienyl iron complex[14]
^Towards the design of tricyclopenta [def, jkl, pqr] triphenylene (sumanene): a bowl-shaped hydrocarbon featuring a structural motif present in C60 (buckminsterfullerene)Goverdhan Mehta, Shailesh R. Shah and K. Ravikumar Journal of the Chemical Society,Chemical Communications,1993, (12), 1006 - 1008doi:10.1039/C39930001006
^A Synthesis of Sumanene, a Fullerene Fragment Hidehiro Sakurai, Taro Daiko, and Toshikazu HiraoScience, Vol 301, Issue 5641, 1878 , 26 September2003doi:10.1126/science.1088290
^Structural Elucidation of Sumanene and Generation of Its Benzylic Anions Hidehiro Sakurai, Taro Daiko, Hiroyuki Sakane, Toru Amaya, and Toshikazu HiraoJ. Am. Chem. Soc., 127 (33), 11580 -11581,2005doi:10.1021/ja0518169
^Hidehiro Sakurai, Taro Daiko, Hiroyuki Sakane, Toru Amaya, and Toshikazu Hira; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127 (33), pp 11580–11581doi:10.1021/ja0518169
^Anisotropic Electron Transport Properties in Sumanene Crystal Toru Amaya, Shu Seki, Toshiyuki Moriuchi, Kana Nakamoto, Takuto Nakata, Hiroyuki Sakane, Akinori Saeki, Seiichi Tagawa and Toshikazu Hirao J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131 (2), pp 408–409doi:10.1021/ja805997v
^The electrochemical inspection of the redox activity of sumanene and its concave CpFe complex Piero Zanello, Serena Fedi, Fabrizia Fabrizi de Biani, Gianluca Giorgi, Toru Amaya, Hiroyuki Sakane and Toshikazu HiraoDalton Trans., 2009, 9192-9197doi:10.1039/B910711H
^Solid-state 13C NMR investigations of 4,7-dihydro-1H-tricyclopenta[def,jkl,pqr]triphenylene (sumanene) and indeno[1,2,3-cd]fluoranthene: Buckminsterfullerene moieties Merrill D. Halling, Anita M. Orendt, Mark Strohmeier, Mark S. Solum, Vikki M. Tsefrikas, Toshikazu Hirao, Lawrence T. Scott, Ronald J. Pugmire and David M. Grant Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 7934-7941doi:10.1039/C001903H
^Bowl-to-bowl inversion of sumanene derivatives Toru Amaya, Hiroyuki Sakane, Toshiko Muneishi and Toshikazu Hirao Chem. Commun., 2008, 765-767doi:10.1039/B712839H
^Synthesis of Highly Strained π-Bowls from Sumanene Toru Amaya, Takuto Nakata and Toshikazu Hirao, Japan J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131 (31), pp 10810–10811doi:10.1021/ja9031693
^Communication Development of a Sila-Friedel−Crafts Reaction and Its Application to the Synthesis of Dibenzosilole Derivatives Shunsuke Furukawa, Junji Kobayashi and Takayuki Kawashima J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131 (40), pp 14192–14193doi:10.1021/ja906566r
^Synthesis, structures and optical properties of trisilasumanene and its related compounds Tomoharu Tanikawa, Masaichi Saito, Jing Dong Guo and Shigeru Nagase Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 1731-1735doi:10.1039/C0OB00987C
^Asymmetric Synthesis of a Chiral Buckybowl, Trimethylsumanene Shuhei Higashibayashi and Hidehiro Sakurai J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130 (27), pp 8592–8593doi:10.1021/ja802822k
^Sakane, H., Amaya, T., Moriuchi, T. and Hirao, T. (2009), A Chiral Concave-Bound Cyclopentadienyl Iron Complex of Sumanene. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 48: 1640–1643.doi:10.1002/anie.200805567
