
Cyclobutadiene and (Cyclobutadiene)tricarbonyliron
As we saw in Section
12.17, cyclobutadiene is antiaromatic and exceedingly difficult to prepare and study. Its successful preparation by Rowland Pettit (University of Texas) in
1965 demonstrated how
Once freed from its iron tricarbonyl complex, cyclobutadiene is unstable and dimerizes
readily. The structure of the dimer is:

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