1,2-Dioxin is a
heterocyclic
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,
organic,
antiaromatic compound with the
chemical formula
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CHO. It is an
isomer
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...
ic form of
1,4-dioxin (or ''p''-dioxin).
Due to its
peroxide
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The most common peroxide is hydrogen ...
-like characteristics, 1,2-dioxin is very unstable and has not been isolated. Calculations suggest that it would isomerize rapidly into but-2-enedial. Even
substituted
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derivatives
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are very labile, e.g. 1,4-diphenyl-2,3-benzodioxin. Indeed, in 1990, 3,6-bis(''p''-tolyl)-1,2-dioxin was wrongly accounted as the first stable derivative. It was subsequently shown that the initial compound was not a derivative of 1,2-dioxin, but a thermodynamically more stable
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*106 Dione, a large main belt asteroid
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References
Dioxins
Hypothetical chemical compounds
Antiaromatic compounds
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