BOND LENGTHS AND BOND ORDERS IN π-ELECTRON HETEROCYCLES

Abstract
A comparison of bond orders calculated by different methods (Pauling, HMO, PPP, SCF-MO) with experimental bond lengths has been made for representative sets of sulfur and nitrogen π-electron heterocycles and statistical treatment of the results has been presented. Bond orders obtained by simple techniques (Pauling, HMO) are equally effective in predicting and correlating bond lengths in these heterocycles as those calculated by more sophisticated methods (PPP, SCF-MO).

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