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ORGANIC LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 24, Pages 5573-5576Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ol802417n
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Visualization of induced current density using the ipsocentric CHF/CTOCD-DZ/6-31G** approach gives a direct demonstration of the literature proposal of reversal of [4n]annulene antiaromaticity on stacking cyclooctatetraene (COT) rings into a superphane. Through-space interactions lead to a closed-shell in which paratropicity of planar COT units is quenched, and layered diatropic currents arise from magnetic response of two pairs of frontier orbitals. A general orbital model rationalizes the differences in current between stacked aromatic and antiaromatic rings.
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