Five-membered ring systems carbazoles

The TT-electron excess of the five-membered rings is accompanied by a high rr-donor character. The best measure of rr-donation is the value of first ionization potential, IP, which for all aromatic heterocycles with one heteroatom of pyrrole type reflects the energy of highest occupied rr-orbital. IP, values decrease in the sequence pyrrole > indole > carbazole furan > benzo[/ ]furan > dibenzofuran thiophene > benzo[/ ]thiophene (Section 2.3.3.9, Tables 21 and 23). Thus, the more extensive the rr-system, the stronger is its electron donor ability. Furan and thiophene possess almost equal rr-donation, which is considerably lower than that of pyrrole. 

Systems considered are the parent heterocycles with one heteroatom (furan, thiophene, selenophene, and pyrrole), their monoaza and polyaza derivatives, and the monobenzo derivatives of the above systems. Dibenzo derivatives such as dibenzofuran and carbazole are not taken into account, since they have no position in the five-membered ring susceptible to electrophilic attack. Likewise, no consideration is given to more complicated systems, formed by the fusion of two heterocyclic rings such as thienothiophenes or pyrrolopyridines, for which, in any case, no quantitative work is available. 

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