Which NICS aromaticity index for planar π rings is best?

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 863-866

  Fallah Bagher Shaidaei, Hossein ^a,b   Wannere, Chaitanya S ^b   Corminboeuf, Clémence ^b   Puchta, Ralph ^c   Schleyer, Paul V R ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 33644959806     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0529546     Document Type: Article

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