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Author Henry Rzepa
Another post inspired by a comment on an earlier one; I had been discussing compounds of the type I.I n (n=4,6) as possible candidates for hypervalency.
Another post inspired by a comment on an earlier one; I had been discussing compounds of the type I.I n (n=4,6) as possible candidates for hypervalency.
Like benzene, its fully saturated version cyclohexane represents an icon of organic chemistry. By 1890, the structure of planar benzene was pretty much understood, but organic chemistry was still struggling somewhat to fully embrace three rather than two dimensions. A grand-old-man of organic chemistry at the time, Adolf von Baeyer, believed that cyclohexane too was flat, and what he said went.