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Monday, June 13, 2022

Is Cyclocta-1,3,5,7-tetraene (COT) is aromatic, anti-aromatic OR non- aromatic?

Cyclocta-1,3,5,7-tetraene (COT) have four double bonds  and four single bond alternatively hence their is lack of  resonance. The reason behind this is bigger size of ring and finally  cyclocta-1,3,5'7-tetraene is to be non-planar.
The structure is:


However, the compound have four  double bonds  means eight (8) π electrons.

It may be aromatic, it has to have 4n+2 electrons (2, 6, 10, etc.).

Anti-aromatic systems have 4n electrons (4, 8, 12, etc.).

It may be expected that the molecule was planar and anti-aromatic.

However, actually the molecule takes a tub-shaped (non planer ) conformation in its native state. Since, it is not a planar molecule, it becomes non-aromatic instead of anti-aromatic.

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