What aromatic compounds follow Hückel's rule?
1 Answer
All aromatic compounds follow Hückel's rule.
Explanation:
Hückel's rule states that a planar, cyclic, conjugated molecule is aromatic if it contains 4
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Compounds with
The most common examples have
a. Benzene and its derivatives
b. Six-membered heterocyclics like pyridine and pyrimidine
c. Five membered heterocyclics like pyrrole, furan, and thiophene
d. Five-membered anions like cyclopentadienide ion
e. Seven-membered cations like tropylium ion
Compounds with
cyclopropenyl cation
Compounds with
These include naphthalene and azulene.
Compounds with
These include the annulenes.
[14]-annulene (
[18]-annulene (
