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Account for the extra stability of tri-cyclopropyl carbocation.

Account for the extra stability of tri-cyclopropyl carbocation.

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Chetan Mandayam Nayakar
312 Points
12 years ago

First of all, a cyclopropyl carbocation is aromatic because it satisfies Huckel rule 4n+2 with n=zero. In tri-cyclopropyl carbocation, there is resonance effect of three identical and aromatic cyclopropyl carbocations. This is the cause of the extra stability.

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