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Cyclobutadiene: The Antiaromatic Paradigm?
Author(s) -
Bally Thomas
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200602279
Subject(s) - antiaromaticity , cyclobutadiene , chemistry , organic chemistry , molecule , aromaticity
The heat of formation of cyclobutadiene has recently been determined by Kass and co‐workers. This determination is taken as an occasion to reflect on the difficulty to extract from this number the “antiaromatic destabilization” and the strain energy of this most fundamental species.