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Bond length alternation in infinitely long conjugated polyacenes

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This paper concludes that whereas linear polyacenes are stable to distortions that preserve mirror symmetry with respect to the plane which is the perpendicular bisector of their interior bonds, they are unlikely to be stable with respect to distortions that do not preserve this symmetry.

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  1. Petrochemical & Polymer Laboratory, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, The Heath, P. O. Box 11, Runcorn, Cheshire

    M. R. Boon

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Boon, M.R. Bond length alternation in infinitely long conjugated polyacenes. Theoret. Chim. Acta 23, 109–110 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00530207

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