Recent studies on the aromaticity and antiaromaticity of planar cyclooctatetraene

Symmetry

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-97

  Nishinaga, Tohru ^a   Ohmae, Takeshi ^a   Iyoda, Masahiko ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiaromaticity; Cyclooctatetraene; NMR chemical shifts; Quantum chemical calculations; Ring current

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956167349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20738994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/sym2010076     Document Type: Review

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