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In organic chemistry, Möbius aromaticity is a special type of aromaticity believed to exist in a number of organic molecules. In terms of molecular orbital theory these compounds have in common a monocyclic array of molecular orbitals in which there is an odd number of out-of-phase overlaps, the opposite pattern compared to the aromatic character to Hückel systems. The spatial configuration of the orbitals is reminiscent of a Möbius strip, hence the name. The smallest member of this class of compounds would be trans-benzene. Möbius molecular systems were considered in 1964 by Edgar Heilbronner by application of the Hückel method,〔''Hückel molecular orbitals of Möbius-type conformations of annulenes'' Tetrahedron Letters, Volume 5, Issue 29, 1964, Pages 1923-1928 E. Heilbronner 〕 but the first such compound was not synthesized until 2003 by the group of Rainer Herges.〔''Synthesis of a Möbius aromatic hydrocarbon'' D. Ajami, O. Oeckler, A. Simon, R. Herges Nature 426, 819-821 (18 December 2003) PMID 14685233〕 ==Ansatz Wavefunction & Hückel-Möbius Energy== For the Mobius geometry, the boundary conditions differ from the standard particle in a ring problem. Supposing to have a strip of length and , we can see that ''general'' Mobius boundary conditions for the wavefunction are: * * or using the spherical azimuthal angle : : For an -carbons, the proposed ansatz LCAO wavefunction is: : Using this equation and the Euler rule we can find the right value satisfying previous boundary conditions: : : : From the last equation we see that to fulfil the general boundary conditions, must be a half-integer number. The coefficients of the ansatz become: : From figure above, it can also be seen that the overlap between two consecutive AOs is at a constant angle , and for this reason resonance integral it's considered as a constant into the Huckel matrix we will write later. It could be simply written as: : where is the standard Huckel’s resonance integral value (the one with ). Nevertheless, the presence of a axis as the only symmetry element brings to a full phase change at the end of the ring, e.i. between the first and the -th carbon atoms. For this reason, in the Huckel matrix the resonance integral between carbon and is . For the generic carbons Mobius system, the Huckel matrix is: : Eigenvalues equation can now be solved. Since is a matrix, we will have eigenvalues and MOs. Defining the variable : we have: : Hence we obtain a system of equations, in which the first one () and the last one () have a coefficient: : All these equations can be easily solved using Euler's rule, leading to : hence : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Möbius aromaticity」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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