Antiaromaticity-Promoted Radical Stability in α-Methyl Heterocyclics
Submitted by Jun Zhu on Thu, 10/14/2021 - 09:41
Aromaticity is a fundamental and important concept in chemistry, and usually, the enhancement of aromaticity brings additional thermodynamic stability to a compound. Moreover, since radicals can act as intermediates in chemical reactions, they have attracted considerable attention from both experimental and theoretical chemists for a long time. However, it remains unclear whether there is a relationship between the thermodynamic stability of cyclic planar radicals and their aromaticity.