Four- and two-electron rules for diatropic and paratropic ring currents in monocyclic π systems
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- 4 October 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 21,p. 2220-2221
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b104847n
Abstract
The π ring current in an even-electron monocycle is dominated by the HOMO–LUMO transition, and hence corresponds to circulation of four electrons in a diatropic (4n + 2)-electron, but two in a paratropic (4n)-electron cycle.Keywords
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