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Interrelations between Various Types of Aromaticity Indices. 334... 

Obviously then, the relative reactivities of the aromatic positions in lignin units do not fit a uniform pattern but depend largely on the specific nature of the electrophile. Consequently, the information obtainable from protodedeuteration data is somewhat limited at the moment. Since the protodedeuteration rate constants can be determined conveniently and precivSely, they can probably be used better in the future to predict reactivities in other electrophilic displacements as the interrelations between these reactions become more thoroughly understood. 

In the next chapter by Ibon Alkorta and Jose Elguero, applying computational approaches presents interrelations between aromaticity and chemical and physicochemical properties of heterocycles. The following problems and properties are considered tautomerism, conformation analysis, acid-base equilibria, H-bonding and proton transfer, energetics, reactivity, IR-, NMR-, and MW-spectroscopies. At the end is a discussion of problems related to supramolecules and macrocycles. 

The characterization of the interrelations between chemical bonding and molecular shape requires a detailed analysis of the electronic density of molecules. Chemical bonding is a quantum mechanical phenomenon, and the shorthand notations of formal single, double, triple, and aromatic bonds used by chemists are a useful but rather severe oversimplification of reality. Similarly, the classical concepts of body and surface , the usual tools for the shape characterization of macroscopic objects, can be applied to molecules only indirectly. The quantum mechanical uncertainty of both electronic and nuclear positions within a molecule implies that valid descriptions of both chemical bonding and molecular shape must be based on the fuzzy, delocalize properties of electronic density distributions. These electron distributions are dominated by the nuclear arrangements and hence quantum mechanical uncertainly affects electrons on two levels by the lesser positional uncertainty of the more massive nuclei, and by the more prominent positional uncertainty of the electrons themselves. These two factors play important roles in chemistry and affect both chemical bonding and molecular shape. 

Cancer was first identified in the late eighteenth century, after observation of its incidence in patients who were chimney sweepers in the UK, which established the interrelation between chemicals and the disease (exposure to soot, coal tars and benzene). Later, the carcinogenic potency of tar was shown to be related to its polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon structure. 

At the present time the data suggest multiple points of action of the adrenocortical hormones. Of the reactions which Villee et al. (1952) suggested might be influenced by the adrenocortical hormones, the condensation of pyruvate with oxaloacetate is known to require coenzyme A, as was described earlier. However, both Lipsett and Moore s (1952) experiments showing that the production of ketone bodies from pyruvate was not influenced by adrenalectomy and the observation that the acetylation of aromatic amines was not influenced by adrenalectomy (Dumm and Ralli, 1951) appear to exclude the reactions leading to the production of acetyl-CoA from pyruvate as probable points of action of the adrenocortical hormones. Therefore, of the reactions leading to the production of citrate from pyruvate and oxaloacetate, the most likely to be influenced by the adrenocortical hormones would appear to be the final condensation of acetyl-CoA with oxaloacetate. If further work should establish a direct influence of the adrenocortical hormones on the condensation of acetyl-CoA with oxaloacetate, an additional basis for the interrelations between pantothenic acid and the functions of the cortical hormones would be established. 

Since the integration values form such an important element of structure determination, we need to set the spectrometer up properly before carrying out the NMR experiment. And one very important parameter which is often forgotten is the relaxation delay, the delay between the single NMR experiments which allows the nuclei to relax. Remember that relaxation is an exponential process, so that theory suggests that it is necessary for the best results to set this equal to at least five times (in our case more than 25 sec for the aromatic protons ). The other parameter we need to set correctly is of course the pulse angle, and the following set of experiments show how these are interrelated. 

In discussing various indices of aromaticity developed from different criteria (energetic, structural, magnetic), we noted correlations between indices based not only on one type of criteria, but also on different ones. Is, however, the interrelation among different criteria always clear-cut and convincing Will the aromaticity inferred from, say, a magnetic criterion be confirmed by an energetic one ... 

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