Cyclooctatetraene Molecular Structure Diagram #180286 (License: Personal Use)

This image depicts the skeletal structure of cyclooctatetraene (C₈H₈), a cyclic hydrocarbon with eight carbon atoms and four conjugated double bonds. Unlike benzene, it adopts a non-planar "tub" conformation to avoid angle strain and antiaromaticity, making it non-aromatic. The diagram uses standard line-angle notation where vertices represent carbon atoms and lines denote bonds.

Used in educational chemistry resources, textbooks, and online databases to illustrate concepts like aromaticity, conjugation, and ring strain. Targets students, educators, and researchers seeking visual clarification of organic molecular geometry.