Published in Henry Rzepa's Blog
Author Henry Rzepa
In the previous posts, I tried to track down the onset of bond length alternation ( BLA ) as a function of ring size in aromatic cyclocarbons, finding the answer varied dramatically depending on the type of method used to calculate it. So here I change the system to an unusual kind of aromatic ring, the leminiscular or figure-eight annulene series. ♥ I explore the Kekulé vibration for such species