Stacked antiaromatic porphyrins

Stacked antiaromatic porphyrins

Aromaticity is a key concept in organic chemistry. Even though this concept has already been theoretically extrapolated to three dimensions, it usually still remains restricted to planar molecules in organic chemistry textbooks. Stacking of antiaromatic π-systems has been proposed to induce three-dimensional aromaticity as a result of strong frontier orbital interactions. However, experimental ...

Polycyclic antiaromatic hydrocarbons.

Magnetically induced current densities have been calculated for a series of hydrocarbons consisting of hexadehydro[12]annulene rings alternatingly fused with benzenes. The calculations show that all molecular rings of the studied molecules sustain paramagnetic ring currents. The new class of molecules is therefore coined polycyclic antiaromatic hydrocarbons (PAAH).

Electron delocalization in various triply linked zinc(II) porphyrin arrays: role of antiaromatic junctions between aromatic porphyrins.

A series of meso-meso, β-β, β-β triply linked linear, radial and square-type zinc(II) porphyrin arrays consist of the constituent porphyrin units and naphthalene junctions. To understand the unique nature of triply linked porphyrin arrays, numerous research activities have been focused on the electronic structures of the constituent porphyrin units. In this study, however, we have paid attentio...

Cyclobutadiene: the antiaromatic paradigm?

There is probably no other single molecule that has fascinated experimental and theoretical chemists so consistently over the past 40 years as has cyclobutadiene (CBD). On average, 16 publications which deal, in one form or another, with the parent compound C4H4 and 40 which deal with cyclobutdienes in general have appeared in every year of this time span, and there are probably many more on de...

Photophysical Properties of Aromatic and Antiaromatic Porphyrinoids