A theoretical and experimental scale of aromaticity. The first nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS) study of the dimethyldihydropyrene nucleus

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 124, Issue 45, 2002, Pages 13495-13505

  Williams, Richard Vaughan ^a   Armantrout, John R ^a   Twamley, Brendan ^a   Mitchell, Reginald H ^b   Ward, Timothy R ^b   Bandyopadhyay, Subhajit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFTS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

PYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THEORY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037073172     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja020595t     Document Type: Article

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