AROMATICITY REFS

["E. Lewars" <elewars : at : alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>]

 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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