cycloparaphenylene

Questions

What does cycloparaphenylene mean?

Any of a group of cyclic hydrocarbons, that are polymers of p-phenylene, that constitute the shortest possible segment of a carbon nanotube

Where does cycloparaphenylene come from?

From cyclo- + para- + phenylene.

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