" Stretched benzene." Kinetic analysis of possible pseudoaromaticity resulting from (2+ 2+ 1+ 1) partitioning of a neutral six-orbital six-electron system

LA Paquette, MR Short, JF Kelly

Index: Paquette,L.A. et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1971 , vol. 93, # 26 p. 7179 - 7186

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Abstract: The cycloaddition of cyclobutadiene and benzocyclobutadiene to 3, 6-disubstituted s-tetrazines gives rise in a single manipulation to derivatives of the exo, exo-11, 12- diazatetracyclo [4.4. 2. Oz~ 6. O~~ 1~] dodeca. 3, 8, 1 1-triene system. The kinetics of the thermal decomposition of these azo compounds have been determined in an effort to assess the possibility of pseudoaromatic stabilization in the resulting diradicals which can be ...