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It is a wide-spread belief among chemists that Kekulé structures are used only within resonance theory (which, on the other hand, would be an oversimplified version of valence bond theory), and are thus of little or no interest for contemporary theoretical chemistry. In this chapter we try to convince the reader that in reality the situation is somewhat different. Recent work in ab initio valence bond theory (Cooper et al. 1986, Gerratt 1987) shows that the importance of Kekulé structures is much greater than is usually presumed, a fact which was known half a century ago, but eventually neglected by the broader scientific community (Pauling 1987).
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Gutman, I., Cyvin, S.J. (1989). Kekulé Structures. In: Introduction to the Theory of Benzenoid Hydrocarbons. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87143-6_5
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