Aromaticity and ring currents

J Gomes, RB Mallion - Chemical Reviews, 2001 - ACS Publications
… the ring-current concept … ring currents with the idea of aromaticity. We shall take as our brief
any suggested connections between aromaticity and the several ways in which a ring current

Ring currents

P Lazzeretti - Progress in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, 2000 - Elsevier
… [80] succeeded in interpreting the chemical shifts in some condensed aromatic ring
systems. A molecular orbital theory of aromatic ring current appears shortly afterwards [75], …

Introduction: aromaticity

PR Schleyer - Chemical Reviews, 2001 - ACS Publications
ring currents and aromaticity (as does P. Lazzaretti in a notable related article Ring Currents.
… general topological analysis of the current-density field... to age-proven concepts like ring

Ring-current aromaticity in open-shell systems

A Soncini, PW Fowler - Chemical Physics Letters, 2008 - Elsevier
… Hence, the HOMO contributes the characteristic aromatic diatropic ring current. In contrast,
in … , rotationally but not translationally allowed, leading to an intense paratropic ring current. …

A simple ring current model for describing in-plane aromaticity in pericyclic reactions

I Morao, FP Cossío - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1999 - ACS Publications
… , in-plane aromaticity is manifested by a ring current moving … a maximum diamagnetic
shielding at the ring point of the electron … , π aromaticity can be characterized by two ring currents

Double Aromaticity and Ring Currents in All‐Carbon Rings

PW Fowler, N Mizoguchi, DE Bean… - … –A European Journal, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… 4m+2 rings are doubly aromatic as the ring currents in the π … C 4m rings are doubly anti-aromatic
as both ring currents are … +3 rings have mixed aromaticity, with the aromatic component …

Aromatic and antiaromatic ring currents in a molecular nanoring

MD Peeks, TDW Claridge, HL Anderson - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
… that a global ring current can be promoted in a macrocycle by adjusting its oxidation state
to suppress the local ring currents of its components.The discovery of ring currents around a …

A bond order approach to ring current and aromaticity

K Jug - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1983 - ACS Publications
… dianions are really aromatic. In the following section we develop an alternative approach
to aromaticity based on the ring current concept. We relate ring current and bond order. We …

All-metal aromaticity: revisiting the ring current model among transition metal clusters

Z Badri, S Pathak, H Fliegl… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
… The integrated current strengths at various levels of theory confirm the presence of a net
diatropic ring current, showing that the system is aromatic according to the ring current criterion. …

Aromaticity, π-electron delocalization, and ring currents

PW Fowler, M Lillington, LP Olson - Pure and applied chemistry, 2007 - degruyter.com
… to support a ring current. If the ring current has the diatropic sense, the system is aromatic; if
the … Attribution of aromaticity ab initio therefore reduces to the calculation and visualization of …