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A comment on the Hückel 4n + 2 rule

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The pentalenopentalene molecule has an open (in the Hückel sense) π-electron shell, notwithstanding that the number of π-electrons forming the π-electron system is a number of the form (4n+2).

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  1. D. A. Bochvar and A. V. Tutkevich, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Khim., 756 (1966).

  2. L. Fieser and I., Fieser, Organic Chemistry [Russian translation], Khimiya (1966), p. 2.

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  1. Institute of Heteroorganic Compounds, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, USSR

    D. A. Bochvar, I. V. Stankevich & A. V. Tutkevich

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  1. D. A. Bochvar
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1185–1186, May, 1969.

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Bochvar, D.A., Stankevich, I.V. & Tutkevich, A.V. A comment on the Hückel 4n + 2 rule. Russ Chem Bull 18, 1091–1092 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00922885

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