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Some consequences of bond alternation in long polyenes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

L. Salem
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Cambridge

Abstract

The effect of a twofold bond alternation on the bond orders and and on the π-electron contribution to the diamagnetic susceptibility of a cyclic even hydrocarbon polyene is investigated. Power series expansions and asymptotic expressions are given for and χπ in terms of the parameter t2 (0 ≤ t2 < 1) which characterizes the amount of bond alternation. It is found that bond alternation reduces both bond order and χπ strongly, the effect being more drastic the greater the bond alternation (t2→0).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1961

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