Abstract
Abstract Several coordination complexes of cyclobutadiene (I) have been prepared (e.g., cyclobutadiene iron tricarbonyl [1]) and cyclooctatetraene (II) is a well-known compound (for a potentially planar form of cyclooctatetraene, see [2]). Although butalene [3] (III) has not been synthesized so far, octalene (IV) has been obtained by Vogel and co-workers [4,5]. Recently we have carried out a theoretical study of the physical and chemical properties of butalene (III) and octalene (IV), and of the various annelated butalenes and octalenes [6,7] using the HMO and SCF-MO (PPP) quantum-chemical methods as well as the structure-resonance theory and graph theoretical methods. Numerous theoretical data are available in the literature on cyclobutadiene (I) and cyclooctatetraene (II).
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