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Offline selsunblue4

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Cyclooctatetraene dianon
« on: September 07, 2014, 01:52:54 AM »
is Cyclooctatetraene dianon aromatic?, i.e. is it planar?. is the ring flat?
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Re: Cyclooctatetraene dianon
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2014, 04:56:47 AM »
What is the law that a molecule is aromatic?
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Re: Cyclooctatetraene dianon
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2014, 05:46:36 AM »
2n+4 Pi bonds?, but I don't know how to count n for things like Dianon
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Re: Cyclooctatetraene dianon
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2014, 03:24:02 AM »
Correct, You have 3 double bonds and 2 Electron pairs from the two charges.

If you count you have then 10 electrons. This fit to 4*n + 2 if you take n = 2 and so its aromatic.
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Re: Cyclooctatetraene dianon
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2014, 12:45:48 PM »
Odd number of Pi bonds/lone pairs and uninterrupted set of P orbital bearing atoms.
It looks aromatic to me.

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