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Guided by an intuitive choice of approximations which shows remarkable chemical insight into the topic of aromaticity, Hückel mastered the difficult mathematical treatment of a complex molecule like benzene at a very early stage of quantum theory using method 1 (now valence bond theory) and method 2 (now molecular orbital theory). He concluded that method 2 is clearly superior to method 1 because the results of this method explain directly the peculiar behaviour of planar molecules with 6 π electrons.
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Received: 24 February 1999 / Accepted: 25 March 1999 / Published online: 21 June 1999
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Frenking, G. Perspective on “Quantentheoretische Beiträge zum Benzolproblem. I. Die Elektronenkonfiguration des Benzols und verwandter Beziehungen”. Theor Chem Acc 103, 187–189 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002149900023
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