Can I determine aromaticity by Hückel's rule?
1 Answer
Jul 17, 2014
Yes, you can use Hückel's rule to determine aromaticity.
Hückel's rule says that a planar, conjugated, cyclic molecule is aromatic if it has 4
The most common aromatic molecule is benzene (
Azulene is aromatic (
[14]-annulene is aromatic (
So is [18]-annulene (
Many organic ions are aromatic. These include the cyclopropenyl cation (
the cyclopentadienide anion (
and the tropylium ion (