Is cyclopropane really the sigma-aromatic paradigm?

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Published in Chemistry on September 28, 2009

Authors

Wei Wu1, Ben Ma, Judy I-Chia Wu, Paul von Ragué Schleyer, Yirong Mo

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid States, Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China. weiwu@xmu.edu.cn

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