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Antiaromatic compounds are not necessarily unstable - they are just less stable than a bunch of ethenes connected by sigma bonds. If the pi electrons in an antiaromatic compound were to delocalize across a large degenerate orbital, then the result would be a half filled shell. While a half filled shell is not the end of the world, it is a lot more stable to have a full shell of electrons. As a result, compounds such as cyclobutadiene undergo a Jahn Teller distortion (in this case, becoming a rectangle rather than a square) in order to form two separate (and non degenerate) orbitals. This creates a collection of separate, full, pi orbitals. The stability gained by having full rather than half full orbitals is more than enough to compensate for the energy required to break the symmetry in the first place. Cyclobutadiene is stabilized due to stretching not because it prevents antiaromaticity, but because it causes all the pi electrons to be part of complete shells. While it might seem weird that a physical distortion such as stretching can consume less energy than is released by going from a half to a full shell, let me remind you that this is not the case. Higher energy light (UV) is often required to stimulate electronic transitions while lower energy light (IR) can cause bond stretching in compounds.
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