The bent bond/antiperiplanar hypothesis (BBAH) has been applied to the thermal rearrangements of cyclooctatetraene and related CH isomers. This novel orbital model shows that pyramidal singlet diradical intermediates produced from thermal vibrational states of CH isomers account for their chemical reactivity.

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