Isoresonant benzenoids Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A test is made of the concept of "isoresonance", wherein two species are so related if each have like numbers of the same (type of) bonds and there is a suitable isomorphism between superpositions of pairs of Kekul structures. The test is primarily via computations using a few different semiempirical quantum-chemical models on 48 benzenoid structures with over 30 (sometimes overlapping) different isoresonant pairs. Some test is made comparing other experimental data. There is observed to be a high correlation between resonance energies (or certain other properties) of isoresonant pairs - indeed more so than correspondences predicted by some other previously proposed classifications.

published proceedings

  • POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUNDS

author list (cited authors)

  • Živković, T. P., Schmalz, T. G., & Klein, D. J..

citation count

  • 7

complete list of authors

  • Zivkovic, TP||Schmalz, TG||Klein, DJ

publication date

  • July 2000