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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 113, Issue 27, Pages 7945-7952Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp900258a
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [16550016]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16550016] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Although strong diatropic currents run in the pi-stacked dimers of 4n pi annulenes, they are still antiaromatic with negative topological resonance energies (TREs). The TRE difference between two annulene molecules and the pi-stacked annulene dimer call be used as a practical measure of stacked-ring aromaticity. As predicted by Corminboeuf et aL, all pi-stacked 4n pi annulene dimers exhibit marked stacked-ring aromaticity. In contrast, the TRE for the entire conjugated system of a pi-stacked benzene dimer is much smaller than twice the TRE for benzene. The analysis of circuit contributions to energetic and magnetic properties shows that such stacked-ring aromaticity and diatropicity arise from many (4n + 2)-site circuits created by the stacking of two antiaromatic rings. Tetragonal faces formed in the dimers are responsible for the creation of these (4n + 2)-site circuits.
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