[davidenarb]

Frost circles method is designed to help us to draw the relative energy levels of a conjugated ring pi compound.
The tricky point that I found is to draw the inscribed regular polygon. For example, if I want to draw a seven-membred polygon, do I need to do all that geometry [ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Approximated_Heptagon_Inscribed_in_a_Circle.gif ]?

If there is a simpler method, please provide it.

Thanks

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[Corribus]

Well if all you want to know is the energy levels, you can just use the formula resulting from generic solution to the Huckel method for cyclic polyenes. It's fairly simple and can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckel_method



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