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Aromaticity of Osmaacenes in Their Lowest-Lying Singlet and Triplet States
Slavko Radenković1, Miquel Solà2
1Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, P. O. Box 60, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
Abstract:
The aromatic character of a series of osmaacenes in their lowest-lying singlet and triplet states was thoroughly examined by means of the magnetically induced current densities and multicentre delocalization indices (MCIs). Both employed approaches agree that the osmabenzene molecule (OsB) in the S0 state exhibits dominant π-Hückel-type aromatic character, with a small but nonnegligible amount of π-Craig-Möbius aromaticity. Contrary to benzene, which is antiaromatic in the T1 state, OsB preserves some of its aromaticity in the T1 state. In higher members of the osmaacene series in the S0 and T1 states, the central Os-containing ring becomes nonaromatic, acting as a barrier between the two side polyacenic units which, on the other hand, exhibit a significant extent of π-electron delocalization.
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