1. Building better batteries
2. Conjugated dicarboxylate anodes for Li-ion batteries
3. In situ alcohol oxidation-Wittig reactions
4. Carboxylation of cyclooctatetraene dianion. Structures and reactions of the dicarboxylic acids produced
5. NMR spectra were obtained on a Bruker DMX 500MHz spectrometer utilizing Topspin software. 1H-NMR (D2O) Compound t-1 δ 6.45 (s, 2H) ppm. Compound c-2 δ 6.80 (d, 2H), 5.82 (d, 2H) ppm. Compound t-2 δ 6.45 (s, 2H) ppm. Compound c-3. Compound t-3 δ 6.99 (dm, 2H), 6.62 (dd, 2H), 5.99 (d, 2H) ppm. Compound c-4 δ 7.50 (d, 2H), 6.82 (m, 2H), 6.31 (m, 2H), 5.89 (d, 2H) ppm. Compound c-4 δ 7.02 (dd, 2H), 6.64 (m, 2H), 6.50 (m, 2H), 5.94 (d, 2H) ppm.