Pyrrole free valency

Alekseeva et al. (1972b) have carried out a comparison of calculated values of localization energies and free valency indices of pyrrolo[ 1,2-a] imidazole, pyrrolo[l,2-a] benzimidazole and indolizine. In all these molecules the a-position of the pyrrole ring is calculated to be more reactive than the / -position. The free valence indices increase in the order indolizine < pyrrolobenzimidazole < pyrroloimidazole, which is also the order of increasing basicity. 

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