Archive for October 3rd, 2019

Bond length alternation (BLA) in large conjugated rings: an (anti-aromatic) update.

Thursday, October 3rd, 2019

In the previous post, I looked at a class of molecule known as hexaphyrins, inspecting bond length alternation (BLA) at the so-called meso position, the carbon atom joining two pyrrole rings. A search of the difference in bond lengths at this position had shown two significant clusters of crystal structures.
Molecules in the bottom left of this diagram shows little or no bond length alternation. The right middle shows another cluster with more extreme (and unequal) bond length alternation. I have selected one molecule from this cluster, EGIJEK and it differs from EGIHUY in having four NH units in the ring, whereas the latter has only two.

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