What are antiaromatic compounds?

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What are antiaromatic compounds?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-03T15:09:29

Antiaromatic compounds are compounds that have #4n# #pi# electrons delocalized in a ring.

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Just as aromatic compounds have a special stability, antiaromatic have an inherent instability. #"1,3-cyclobutadiene"# is the exemplar, and a lot of organic chemists spent a lot of time and effort in synthesizing this molecule; it has a lifetime of seconds even at low temperature.

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