ortho- and peri-fused (polycyclic compounds)

Polycyclic compounds in which one ring contains two, and only two, atoms in common with each of two or more rings of a contiguous series of rings. Such compounds have n common faces and less than 2n common atoms. Examples:

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Blue Book, p. 22

InChI=1/C19H12/c1-3-12-7-9-14-10-8-13-4-2-6-16-11-15(5-1)17(12)19(14)18(13)16/h1-3,5-11H,4H2

InChI=1/C16H10/c1-3-11-7-9-13-5-2-6-14-10-8-12(4-1)15(11)16(13)14/h1-10H

LFBJZFWBDRYIIY-UHFFFAOYAG

BBEAQIROQSPTKN-UHFFFAOYAB

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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.

Last update: 2014-02-24; version: 2.3.3.

DOI of this term: https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.O04333.

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