Introduction To Aromaticity
What Is “Aromaticity”, Anyway? In this post we introduce “aromaticity”, a term for describing a collection of three [Note 1] main properties that distinguish benzene
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Rules For Aromaticity
Rules For Aromaticity: The 4 Key Factors In the last post we introduced the concept of aromaticity, a property of some unusually stable organic molecules such
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Hückel’s Rule: What Does 4n+2 Mean? “4n+2 is not a formula that you apply to see if your molecule is aromatic. It is a formula
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Aromatic vs Antiaromatic vs Non Aromatic Practice Exercises Our last post in this series on aromaticity went through the 4 conditions a molecule must fulfill
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Antiaromatic Compounds Are Unusually Unstable What are the key factors that determine whether a molecule is antiaromatic? It is similar to the requirements for aromaticity,
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The Pi Molecular Orbitals of Benzene Today, let’s go through how to draw out the molecular orbitals of benzene. We’ll compare them with the molecular
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Cyclobutadiene: Molecular Orbital Diagram, Antiaromaticity, and Structure Previously, we’ve seen what the molecular orbitals of benzene look like, and that the fact that they are partially
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We’ve spent a lot of time in previous posts “building up” and drawing out the molecular orbitals for various species. In this post we’ll learn
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