Aromaticity, spherical

Three-dimensional aromaticity has been demonstrated, for instance in the case of Cram s cyclophane in 1951 [46, 47] and, more recently, for von Rague Schleyer s adamantane dication [48], half-sandwich carbocations, and nido-carboranes. Ferrocene and various other or-ganometallic compounds also are three-dimensional aromatics. Spherical aromaticity is exhibited by closo-carboranes, borane anions, and, to a lesser extent, C60, although these compounds are isotropic. 

C and 5 kg/cm pressure (see Molecularsieves). Selectivity for toluene and xylenes peaks at 550°C but continues with increasing temperature for hensene. The Cyclar process (Fig. 6) developed joindy by BP and UOP uses a spherical, proprietary seoHte catalyst with a nonnoble metallic promoter to convert C or C paraffins to aromatics. The drawback to the process economics is the production of fuel gas, alow value by-product. BP operated a... 

Porphyrin is a multi-detectable molecule, that is, a number of its properties are detectable by many physical methods. Not only the most popular nuclear magnetic resonance and light absorption and emission spectroscopic methods, but also the electron spin resonance method for paramagnetic metallopor-phyrins and Mossbauer spectroscopy for iron and tin porphyrins are frequently used to estimate the electronic structure of porphyrins. By using these multi-detectable properties of the porphyrins of CPOs, a novel physical phenomenon is expected to be found. In particular, the topology of the cyclic shape is an ideal one-dimensional state of the materials used in quantum physics [ 16]. The concept of aromaticity found in fuUerenes, spherical aromaticity, will be revised using TT-conjugated CPOs [17]. 

A carboxylate derivative of a fully aromatic, water-soluble, hyperbranched polyphenylene is considered as a unimolecular micelle due to its ability to complex and solubilize non-polar guest molecules [23]. The carboxylic acid derivative of hyperbranched polyphenylene polymer (HBP) (My,=5750-7077, Mn=3810-3910) consists of 40-60 phenyl units that branch outward from a central point forming a roughly spherical molecule with carboxylates on the outer surface. The free acid form of HBP was suspended in distilled water and dissolved by adding a minimum quantity of NaOH. The solution was adjusted to pH 6.2 with aqueous HCl. Calcium carbonate crystals were growth from supersaturated calcium hydrogencarbonate solution at room temperature. HBP gave... 

Wang, J.L., Jellinek, J., Zhao, J., Chen, Z.F., King, R.B. and Schleyer, P.V. (2005) Hollow Cages versus Space-Filling Structures for Medium-Sized Gold Clusters The Spherical Aromaticity of the Au o Cage. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109, 9265-9269. 

Karttunen, A.J., Linnolahti, M., Pakkanen, T.A. and Pyykkd, P. (2008) Icosahedral AU72 a predicted chiral and spherically aromatic golden fullerene. Chemical Communications, (4), 465-467. 

So what about aromatic protons (<56.0-9.5) aldehyde protons (<59.5—9.6), or even protons oh double, nay triple bonds (<52.5-3.1) All these protons are attached to carbons with n bonds, double or triple bonds, or aromatic systems. The electrons in these n bonds generate their own little local magnetic field. This local field is not spherically symmetric — it can shield or deshield protons depending on where the protons are — it s anisotropic. In Fig. 137, the shielding regions have plusses on them, and deshielding regions have minuses. 

The direct access to the electrical-energetic properties of an ion-in-solution which polarography and related electro-analytical techniques seem to offer, has invited many attempts to interpret the results in terms of fundamental energetic quantities, such as ionization potentials and solvation enthalpies. An early and seminal analysis by Case etal., [16] was followed up by an extension of the theory to various aromatic cations by Kothe et al. [17]. They attempted the absolute calculation of the solvation enthalpies of cations, molecules, and anions of the triphenylmethyl series, and our Equations (4) and (6) are derived by implicit arguments closely related to theirs, but we have preferred not to follow their attempts at absolute calculations. Such calculations are inevitably beset by a lack of data (in this instance especially the ionization energies of the radicals) and by the need for approximations of various kinds. For example, Kothe et al., attempted to calculate the electrical contribution to the solvation enthalpy by Born s equation, applicable to an isolated spherical ion, uninhibited by the fact that they then combined it with half-wave potentials obtained for planar ions at high ionic strength. 

Aihara introduced the term, three dimensional aromaticity (featured in the tide of his paper), to discuss doso-borane dianions in 1978 [12]. Jemmis and Schleyer applied the term to nido systems with six interstitial electrons [55], but their treatment emphasized the Hiickel analogy, rather than the spherical character. 

While Hirsch conceived his 2(n + l)2 electron rule for spherical aromatics, subsets of three-dimensionally aromatic molecules having very high symmetries ( Ti, Oj, h, etc.), it can be applied to lower symmetry clusters such as the nine-vertex examples above. In cluster molecules the highest degeneracy MOs of a spherically harmonic atom set split into related, but lower degeneracy (or even non-degenerate) components. 

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