STRUCTURE AND ENERGY-SPECTRA OF MOLECULES CONTAINING ANTIAROMATIC RING-SYSTEMS .4. AROMATICITY AND ANTI-AROMATICITY IN ELECTRONIC GROUND AND EXCITED-STATES

Authors
DIETZ F VOGEL H SCHLEITZER A TYUTYULKOV N RABINOVITZ M
Citation
F. Dietz et al., STRUCTURE AND ENERGY-SPECTRA OF MOLECULES CONTAINING ANTIAROMATIC RING-SYSTEMS .4. AROMATICITY AND ANTI-AROMATICITY IN ELECTRONIC GROUND AND EXCITED-STATES, Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. B, A journal of chemical sciences, 52(9), 1997, pp. 1072-1076
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear","Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. B, A journal of chemical sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
09320776
Volume
52
Issue
9
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1072 - 1076
Database
ISI
SICI code
0932-0776(1997)52:9<1072:SAEOMC>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Using various criteria to characterize the terms aromaticity and anti- aromaticity it is shown that the non-benzoid aromatic azulene and the benzoid aromatic naphthalene should have anti-aromatic properties in t he first excited singlet state.