Abstract:The C4H4 and C8H8 monocyclic polyene systems are treated automatically as the conjugated delocalized triplet molecules by Hückel molecular orbital (HMO) method, but this is inconsistent with their actual ground state structures associated with singlet state. In this work, both the singlet and triplet molecular structures of the fourmembered ring and the eight-membered ring were optimized by density functional theory (DFT), and the more accurate π bond orders were calculated. Based on the DFT calculated results… Show more
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