Structures of annulenes and model annulene systems in the ground and lowest excited states

Symmetry

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1846-1924

  Gellini, Cristina ^a   Salvi, Pier Remigio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Annulenes; Antiaromaticity; Aromaticity; Porphyrins; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952492367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20738994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/sym2041846     Document Type: Article

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