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. 2009 Dec 10;113(52):21921–21927. doi: 10.1021/jp9074674

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Quasiparticle energy gaps (IP − EA) for the cyclic and acyclic paraphenylenes as a function of the number of benzene rings. The quasiparticle energy gap for the acyclic paraphenylenes decreases much more rapidly than the energy gap for the corresponding cyclic systems.