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Role of π stabilization in cyclic polyenes
Author(s) -
Larsson Sven,
RodríguezMonge Lucía
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-461x(1998)67:2<107::aid-qua5>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - bond length , chemistry , alternation (linguistics) , electron , single bond , bond , bond order , computational chemistry , benzene , coupling (piping) , sextuple bond , double bond , molecular physics , chemical physics , crystallography , group (periodic table) , physics , quantum mechanics , materials science , organic chemistry , crystal structure , philosophy , linguistics , finance , economics , metallurgy
The Hückel model with bond‐length‐dependent coupling (β), contrary to the original Hückel model with a constant β, may be parametrized to give C–C bond lengths and some other properties in good agreement with accurate ab initio results. The paradox in seemingly contradictory conclusions of some recent works on whether the π electrons promote equal bond lengths or bond alternation in benzene is discussed for the more general group of cyclic polyenes. We find that π electrons promote bond alternation but that the interaction between π electrons of different bonds always leads to a decrease of the bond length alternation in cyclic systems (except C 4 H 4 ) compared to the difference in bond length between pure single and double bonds. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Quant Chem 67: 107–113, 1998