Publié in Henry Rzepa's Blog

Increasingly, individual small molecules are having their structures imaged using STM, including cyclo[18]carbon that I recently discussed. The latest one receiving such treatment is Kekulene.[cite]10.1021/jacs.9b07926[/cite] As with cyclo[18]carbon, the point of interest was which of the two resonance structures shown below most closely resembled the measured structure.

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