Chemistry term

Frost Circles

In one sentence

A simple method for drawing the relative energy levels of the MOs for a ring assembled from continuously overlapping p orbitals.

A simple method for drawing the relative energy levels of the MOs for a ring assembled from continuously overlapping p orbitals.

A.A. Frost noted in the year 1953 that the symmetry of a monocyclic conjugated was described by relative energies of the orbitals.

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