{"id":252044,"date":"2016-12-15T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=7fd4d273cac2a905c9eea59cc254974b"},"modified":"2016-12-15T11:11:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:11:27","slug":"first-experimental-evidence-of-3-d-aromaticity-in-stacked-antiaromatic-compounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=252044","title":{"rendered":"First experimental evidence of 3-D aromaticity in stacked antiaromatic compounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aromatic molecules consist of planar carbon-based rings with alternating single and double (\u03c0) bonds. These molecules contain 4n+2 (n = 0, 1, 2 &#8230;) \u03c0 electrons\u2014\u03c0 electrons are those involved in \u03c0 bonds\u2014which results in high stability because the \u03c0 electrons delocalize over the ring structure. Aromatic molecules can interact through offset \u03c0-\u03c0 stacking, and the overlap of \u03c0 orbitals in aromatic structures with \u03c0-\u03c0 stacking can facilitate electron conduction, making such materials attractive for use in electronics. The overlap between \u03c0 orbitals would be increased if \u03c0-\u03c0 stacking was face-to-face rather than offset. However, face-to-face stacking is energetically unfavorable in aromatic molecules because of the repulsion of \u03c0 electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aromatic molecules consist of planar carbon-based rings with alternating single and double (&pi;) bonds. These molecules contain 4n+2 (n = 0, 1, 2 &#8230;) &pi; electrons&mdash;&pi; electrons are those involved in &pi; bonds&mdash;which results in high stability because the &pi; electrons delocalize over the ring structure. Aromatic molecules can interact through offset &pi;-&pi; stacking, and the overlap of &pi; orbitals in aromatic structures with &pi;-&pi; stacking can facilitate electron conduction, making such materials attractive for use in electronics. The overlap between &pi; orbitals would be increased if &pi;-&pi; stacking was face-to-face rather than offset. However, face-to-face stacking is energetically unfavorable in aromatic molecules because of the repulsion of &pi; electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252045,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252044\/revisions\/252045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}