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Topic: How is this molecule non-aromatic? Seems like it's anti-aromatic... :/  (Read 2346 times)

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It looks to me like each ring has 4 pi electrons, so it follows the 4n rule for being anti-aromatic.

It also looks like it's planar...


So, why is this molecule non-aromatic?

Thanks for the help.  :)

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Re: How is this molecule non-aromatic? Seems like it's anti-aromatic... :/
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2013, 05:45:51 PM »
First of all, polycyclic systems don't always follow Huckel's rule.  Second, there are two sp3 hybridized carbons that prevent resonance stabilization.
What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?  - Richard P. Feynman

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