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Continuous group and electron-count rules in aromaticity

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In the present article a group theoretical approach has been used to explain different electron-count rules for aromaticity. A general group theoretical method is presented to derive and unite the different electron count rules (Hückel, Baird, Möbius, and Spherical aromaticity). It is shown that continuous groups play important role in understanding of these electron count rules.

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SYNOPSIS Group theory has been used to investigate the origin of electron-count rules. Present work sucessfully classified the different types of aromaticity in terms of irrudicible representations of continuous groups.

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Author acknowledges the financial support from SERB-DST, Govt. of India through the Project No. ECR/2016/000279.

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Kumar, P. Continuous group and electron-count rules in aromaticity. J Chem Sci 130, 17 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12039-017-1417-9

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