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Offline matsci0000

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AROMATICS
« on: February 27, 2010, 12:32:21 AM »
How can cyclooctatetraene be aromatized?
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Re: AROMATICS
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2010, 12:47:46 AM »
by converting it to a dianion or a dication...

think how you can do that?
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Re: AROMATICS
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2010, 12:57:06 AM »
There is alternate single&double bonds in this compound.When I remove a H atom from any C to form its cation,  then that C becomes sp3 hybridised and hence loses its planarity.Is there any other way to reach the solution? ???
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Re: AROMATICS
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2010, 04:19:33 AM »
Quote from: matsci0000 on February 27, 2010, 12:57:06 AM
When I remove a H atom from any C to form its cation,  then that C becomes sp3 hybridised and hence loses its planarity.
In cyclooctatetraene, the hybridization of the cation formed is not sp3, it is sp.
Moreover, the molecule is not planar as such
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