Rules For Aromaticity
In the last post we introduced the concept of aromaticity, a property of some unusually stable organic molecules such as benzene. Although some aromatic molecules are
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What does 4n+2 mean?
The other night a student came to me with a question about aromaticity. “There’s one thing I don’t get”, she said. “They say a molecule
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Our last post in this series on aromaticity went through the 4 conditions a molecule must fulfill in order to be aromatic. First, it must
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What are the key factors that determine whether a molecule is antiaromatic? In our previous posts in our series on aromaticity [intro to aromaticity], [rules
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