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Resonance energies of 30 conjugated hydrocarbons and their molecular ions have been calculated on the basis of the graph-theoretical theory of aromaticity. No difficulty was found in extending the aromaticity theory to ionic conjugated species. In general, the resonance energies obtained correlated well with typical chemical features of the compounds.
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Jun‐ichi Aihara (1978) studied this question.
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