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Biphenylene: stabilization or destabilization?
Author(s) -
Fishtik Ilie
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of physical organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1395
pISSN - 0894-3230
DOI - 10.1002/poc.1751
Subject(s) - biphenylene , chemistry , character (mathematics) , stereochemistry , resonance (particle physics) , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , atomic physics , mathematics , physics , geometry , phenylene , polymer
A modified Hess–Schaad group additivity scheme has been developed and used to evaluate the resonance energy of biphenylene. It is shown that biphenylene possesses strong aromatic character. The strain energy, if any, should be much lower than previously estimated. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.