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Removed the copyvio and npov section, and dumping here. --Rifleman 82 13:10, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Original url: http://www1.usu.edu/utahstatetoday/archives/may2003/05-02-03/highlights-05-02-03.cfm

[edit] Research at Utah State University

Utah State professor Alexander Boldyrev, along with his colleague Lai-Sheng Wang, a professor at Washington State University and a researcher at the Pacific Northwest Lab have discovered aromaticity, a property in chemistry that was initially thought to occur only in organic material. Today, Boldyrev and Wang have made another breakthrough and discovered antiaromaticity, a property that makes materials weak. The study, "All-Metal Antiaromatic Molecule," is featured in the April 24 issue of "Science" magazine. Boldyrev's new findings dealing with antiaromaticity will help chemists understand why certain materials are weaker than others and why they are very reactive to foreign substances. The research gives Boldyrev, an associate professor in the chemistry and biochemistry department, a conceptual breakthrough in understanding chemical bonding in metal clusters.[http://www1.usu.edu/utahstatetoday/archives/may2003/05-02-03/high

[edit] Cyclobutadiene

Should cyclobutadiene really be mentioned on the antiaromaticity page? It meets the simple rule for antiaromaticity, but it's been known for some time now that the ring strain associated with a four-carbon ring (especially one containing pi-bonds) is severe enough to make cyclobutadiene asymmetric, and hence, its electrons aren't even delocalized. I suppose it "would" be antiaromatic, but that doesn't really mean anything. I think the cyclobutadiene explanation should be included to clear up the confusion. -134.84.102.237 (talk) 10:49, 28 April 2008 (UTC)