Subject: AROMATICITY REFS

From: "E. Lewars" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:17:44 -0500 (EST)

1997  March 4

Hello, Thorsten Koch asked for refs to aromaticity.  Here are a few.

 (Apologies to all authors whose names have been omitted)

1       Arom. and antiarom.:
        Schleyer et al, Ang Chem Int Ed Engl, 34 (1995) 334

2       Bond separation E's as an arom. measure:
        Chestnut, J Comp Chem, 16 (1995) 1227

3       Arom of an annulene:
        Mitchell and Iyer, JACS, 118 (1996) 722

4       Olefinic vs. arom. character:
        Sulzbach et al, JACS, 118 (1996) 3519

5       A simple test for aromaticity:
        Schleyer et al, JACS, 118 (1996) 3519

6       Arom of H clusters:
                        J Phys Chem, 100 (1996) 12299

7       Arom and heterocycles:
        Schleyer et al, Ang Chem Int Ed Engl, 35 (1996) 2638

8       "Aromaticity Today"
        M. Glukhovtsev,  J Chem Educ, 74 (1997) 132

  Some refs to resonance/electron delocalization in benzene.  Most are
theoretical, concerning the role of the sigma vs. the pi electrons.
1) Claim that the pi electrons are *localized*: Nature 1986, 323, 699;
2) same authors: Chap. in "Valence Bond Theort and Chemical Structure",
Elsevier, 1990, pp 287-349.
3) JACS 1993, 115, 10925
4) JACS 1993, 115, 10938
5) JACS 1993, 115, 10943
6) JACS 1993, 115, 10952
7) The Mills-Nixon effect: Ang Chem Int Ed 1994, 33, 1721
8) The Mills-Nixon effect: Ang Chem Int Ed 1995, 34, 1454
9) J Phys Chem 1994, 98, 10048
10) J Phys Chem 1995, 99, 2307
11) J Am Chem Soc 1995, 117, 7760
12) Article on forcing benzene rings to cyclohexatriene struct:
    Chemical and Engineering News 1996, 1 April, p 27.

  E. Lewars
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