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Is this compound planar?
« on: May 28, 2005, 12:57:55 PM »
And how about cyclobutadiene?

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Re:Is this compound planar?
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2005, 12:55:37 PM »
This one isn't entirely planar because it has one sp3 carbon.  The atoms in cyclobutanes tend to pucker a little bit to avoid being planar.

What special factors do you think would affect cyclobutadiene?

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Re:Is this compound planar?
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2005, 07:13:04 AM »
You can't get cyclobutadiene, as it it antiaromatic.

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Re:Is this compound planar?
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2005, 12:07:41 PM »
You can't get cyclobutadiene, as it it antiaromatic.

If you complex it with a metal you can make it "stable". Although, free cyclobutadiene would immediately go through a Jahn-Teller distortion.
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Re:Is this compound planar?
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2005, 02:52:43 PM »
If you complex it with a metal you can make it "stable". Although, free cyclobutadiene would immediately go through a Jahn-Teller distortion.

You can force the release of cyclobutadiene from these metal complexes too, but for obvious reasons it's highly reactive.

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