Baird's rule

In organic chemistry, Baird's rule estimates whether a lowest triplet state of planar ring molecule will have aromatic properties. The quantum mechanical basis for its formulation was first worked out by physical chemist N. Colin Baird in 1972.[1][2]

A lowest triplet state of cyclic ring molecule follows Baird's rule when the number of its π-electrons equals 4n where n is any positive integer. However, in most cases the lowest triplet state of cyclic ring has higher energy then the lowest singlet state of cyclic ring due to Jahn–Teller effect.

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References

  1. ↑ Baird, N. Colin (1972), "Quantum organic photochemistry. II. Resonance and aromaticity in the lowest 3ππ* state of cyclic hydrocarbons", Journal of the American Chemical Society (07/12), doi:10.1021/ja00769a025
  2. ↑ Ottosson, Henrik (2012), "Organic photochemistry: Exciting excited-state aromaticity", Nature Chemistry 4: 969–971, doi:10.1038/nchem.1518
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