The aromaticity of benzene and the lack of aromaticity of cyclooctatetraene: Is our calorimetric perspective a manifestation of convenience, anthropocentrism or folksonomy?

Kathleen F Kay Edwards; Stefan Perişanu; Joel F. Liebman

The aromaticity of benzene and the lack of aromaticity of cyclooctatetraene: Is our calorimetric perspective a manifestation of convenience, anthropocentrism or folksonomy?

Kathleen F Kay Edwards, Stefan Perişanu, Joel F. Liebman

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Abstract

The aromaticity of benzene and its lack in cyclooctatetraene were analyzed by several methods: simple and two-carbon group additivity, experimental realization of the Dewar-Breslow definition of aromaticity, enthalpies of hydrogenation of different kinds of unsaturated hydrocarbons. All calculations showed a large difference in the stabilization energies of the two molecules, which confirms that benzene is aromatic, while cyclooctatetraene is not. Comments about terms of anthropocentric origin used for the derivatives of benzene are made, as are discussions of convenience and folksonomy.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Advances in Chemical Modeling
Publisher	Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Pages	417-431
Number of pages	15
Volume	5
ISBN (Print)	9781634823111, 9781634823104
State	Published - Apr 1 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Anthropocentrism
Aromaticity
Benzene
Cyclooctatetraene
Folksonomy
Group increments
Stabilization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Chemistry(all)

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The aromaticity of benzene and the lack of aromaticity of cyclooctatetraene: Is our calorimetric perspective a manifestation of convenience, anthropocentrism or folksonomy? / Edwards, Kathleen F Kay; Perişanu, Stefan; Liebman, Joel F.
Advances in Chemical Modeling. Vol. 5 Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2015. p. 417-431.

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