Electron Delocalization and Aromaticity in Linear Polyacenes:  Atoms in Molecules Multicenter Delocalization Index

2006 ◽  
Vol 110 (24) ◽  
pp. 7642-7648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Bultinck ◽  
Michel Rafat ◽  
Robert Ponec ◽  
Bart Van Gheluwe ◽  
Ramon Carbó-Dorca ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 593 ◽  
pp. 154-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz W. Szczepanik ◽  
Emil Żak ◽  
Karol Dyduch ◽  
Janusz Mrozek


Chemistry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1302-1313
Author(s):  
Ricardo Casiano-González ◽  
José Enrique Barquera-Lozada

Even though metallacyclopentadienes (MCPs) are among the most common metallacycles, their electron delocalization (aromaticity) has received far less attention than other metallacycles, such as metallabenzenes. We systematically studied the aromaticity of MCPs with energetic (isomerization stabilization energy), density (delocalization index) and magnetic (current density) aromaticity indices. The indices agree that metallacyclopentadienes are, in general, weakly aromatic at most. The 18e− complexes showed the expected weak aromaticity, and only the d8 molecules are somewhat anti-aromatic. However, the theoretical account of the aromaticity of the 16e− MCPs is more convoluted. We find that the aromatic criteria for a 16e−d4 ruthenacyclopentadiene disagree. The lack of agreement shows that significant electron delocalization is not always related to great stability or to strong diatropic currents.





2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
pp. 3578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickaël Gicquel ◽  
Jean-Louis Heully ◽  
Christine Lepetit ◽  
Remi Chauvin




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