All-metal Baird aromaticity

Authors: 
Dandan Chen, Dariusz W. Szczepanik, Jun Zhu, Miquel Solà
Journal: 
Chem. Commun.
Year: 
2020
Volume: 
56
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Accepted Article
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Abstract: 

The Baird’s rule has been applied to a large scope of organic molecular systems for rationalizing the aromaticity reversal in the lowest-lying triplet state. In this study, we demonstrate that the Baird’s rule can be also extended to all-metal systems with σ- and π-aromaticity.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2020/CC/D0CC05586G#!divAbstract

Doi: 
10.1039/D0CC05586G