Extended Hiickel molecular orbital method calculation procedure

Molecular orbital calculations for the parent vinyl cation, Cj H3, were first reported by Hoffmann (161), who used the extended Hiickel method, and more recently by Yonezawa and co-workers (162), who used a semiempirical SCF procedure. Both treated the problem of classical, 172 (R = H), versus bridged structures, 173, but the methods suffered from their inability to account satisfactorily for bond-length changes, and neither discussed the question of linear, 172a, versus bent, 172b, structures. 

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