What is implied by the term “superaromatic”, as applied to the reactivity of ferrocene toward electrophilic...

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What is implied by the term “superaromatic”, as applied to thereactivity of ferrocene toward electrophilic aromatic substitution?How can this be used to explain the fact that no Lewis acidcatalyst is required during the Friedel-Crafts acylation offerrocene?   

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As we all know about the Aromaticity well define by Huckel rule but the term Superaromaticity seems a term related to extra stabilisation that one could expect from a highly extended conjugated ring system over and above an extended linear one More precisely    See Answer
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