question archive The reactivity and geometry of the compound What characterizes an aromatic compound it's cyclic, planar, and have a conjugated system of p orbitals perpendicular to the plane of the molecule, and this conjugation makes the molecule very stable
The reactivity and geometry of the compound What characterizes an aromatic compound it's cyclic, planar, and have a conjugated system of p orbitals perpendicular to the plane of the molecule, and this conjugation makes the molecule very stable
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The reactivity and geometry of the compound
What characterizes an aromatic compound it's cyclic, planar, and have a conjugated system of p orbitals perpendicular to the plane of the molecule, and this conjugation makes the molecule very stable.
So a non aromatic compound is either not cyclic or not planar. And an anti aromatic compound is cyclic, planar and has the conjugation of p orbitals, but the difference is the number of electrons in the conjugated p orbitals.
While aromatic compounds follows Hückels rule and has 4n + 2 electrons conjugated we can say the orbitals are 'full', an anti aromatic compound just have 4n electrons conjugated so the molecule is very reactive.
