1,3,5-hexatriene (a kind of linear benzene) was converted into benzene itself. On the

Chapter 14, Problem 14.6(b)

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1,3,5-hexatriene (a kind of linear benzene) was converted into benzene itself. On the basis of a free-electron molecular orbital model (in which hexatriene is treated as a linear box and benzene as a ring), would you expect the lowest energy absorption to rise or fall in energy?

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