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Offline omni

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1,3,5 CycloHexaTriene
« on: February 27, 2009, 12:48:45 AM »
Hello everyone.
I'm doing some modeling with ArgusLab.
I modeled out Benzene and saw that its heat of formation was about 21 kcal/mol and the Heat of formation for 1,3,5 CycloHexaTriene is 32 kcal/mol
Can anyone confirm this?

Also, using ArgusLab, I was trying to do the Electrostatic Potential however the maps for both of the molecules look exactly the same. From what I understand, benzene's pi electrons should be delocalized whereas cyclohexane's shouldn't. In this case, the ESP Maps for both should be different.

Can anyone help out? Any help will be greatly appreciated

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Re: 1,3,5 CycloHexaTriene
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2009, 12:17:57 PM »
Heats of hydrogenation for benzene-49.8Kcal/mole
and calculated value for heats of hydrogenation of cyclohexatriene is expected to be very high-85.8Kcal
1,3,5 -cyclohexatriene is nothing but benzene only.It has pi electron clouds which are delocalized due to this Heats of hydrogenation -49.8Kcal/mole

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