Abstract
A central idea in organic chemistry for the past 50 years is that cyclopropenyl anion is antiaromatic. A correlation between cycloalkene acidities and allylic bond angles reveals that energetically this is not case, cyclopropenyl anion is nonaromatic.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7370-7372 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of Organic Chemistry |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue number | 14 |
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| State | Published - Jul 19 2013 |