Aromaticity : modern computational methods and applications /

Evaluating the aromaticity of a molecular system and the influence of this concept on its properties is a crucial step in the development of novel aromatic systems.Modern computational methods can provide researchers with a high level of insight into such aromaticity, but identifying the most approp...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Fernandez, Israel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page
  • Half Title
  • Full Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1
  • Aromaticity in molecules and transition structures: from atomic and molecular orbitals to simple ring current models
  • Introduction
  • Aromaticity in Hubcckel and Heilbronner-Mobius theories
  • Aromaticity in SCF-MO and DFT theories
  • Aromaticity and valence bond theory
  • Ring currents and atomic orbitals in aromatic systems
  • Summary
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 2
  • Overview of the computational methods to assess aromaticity
  • Introduction
  • Molecular orbital-based methods
  • Huckel
  • Adaptive Natural Density Partitioning
  • Energy-based methods
  • Resonance energy
  • Aromatic stabilization energy
  • Isomerization stabilization energy
  • Harmonic oscillator stabilization energy
  • Magnetic-based methods
  • Magnetic susceptibility anisotropy
  • Diamagnetic susceptibility exaltation
  • 1H-NMR chemical shifts
  • Nucleus-independent chemical shift
  • Multidimensional NICS
  • Iso-chemical shielding surface
  • Anisotropy of the induced current density
  • Vorticity of the current density tensor
  • Geometry-based methods
  • Julg index (A)
  • Harmonic oscillator model of aromaticity
  • Bird index
  • Electron delocalization methods
  • Multicenter bond index
  • Electron localization function
  • Para-delocalization index
  • Fluctuation index
  • Electron density-based methods
  • Ring critical point density and aromaticity
  • Ellipticity index
  • Shannon aromaticity
  • Vibrational spectroscopy
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3
  • Molecular geometry as a source of electronic structure of Pi-electron systems and their physicochemical properties
  • Introduction
  • Bond length and its multiplicity
  • Geometry-based indices of aromaticity
  • The first steps
  • The HOMA index
  • Modifications of the HOMA index
  • Applications.
  • Substituent effects on aromaticity of benzenoid hydrocarbons
  • Polycyclic Pi-electron alternant hydrocarbons
  • Nonalternant Pi-electron hydrocarbons and their heteroanalogs
  • Summary
  • References
  • Chapter 4
  • NICS
  • Nucleus-independent Chemical Shift
  • Historical and physical background of NICS
  • Evolution of NICS as an aromaticity index
  • NICS methods for monocyclic systems
  • NICS methods for polycyclic systems
  • NICS methods for macrocyclic systems
  • The importance of dissected NICS
  • NICS beyond ^^cf^^80-systems
  • How NICS compares to other indices
  • Best practices for using NICS
  • NICS in practice
  • References
  • Chapter 5
  • Current density, current-density pathways, and molecular aromaticity
  • Magnetic fields in quantum mechanics
  • Current density
  • Current-density susceptibility
  • Current-density vector field
  • Nuclear magnetic shielding
  • Nuclear magnetic shieldings and current densities
  • Magnetic susceptibilities and closed-shell paramagnetic molecules
  • Treatment of the gauge origin in quantum chemistry
  • The gauge-including magnetically induced current method
  • Investigating current-density pathways in molecules
  • Integrating the strength of the current density
  • The aromatic ring-current criterion
  • Aromatic pathways in polycyclic molecules
  • Aromatic and antiaromatic porphyrinoids
  • M^^c3^^b6bius-twisted molecules
  • Carbon nanostructures
  • Fullerene C60
  • Gaudiene
  • Toroidal carbon nanotubes
  • Aluminum clusters
  • Scope and limitations of the GIMIC method
  • References
  • Chapter 6
  • Quantifying aromaticity according to the energetic criterion
  • Introduction
  • Resonance energy
  • Aromatic stabilization energies
  • The isomerization stabilization energy method
  • Aromatic stabilization energies from the block-localized wave function method.
  • Aromatic stabilization energies derived from energy decomposition analysis
  • Quantification of aromaticity in expanded porphyrins
  • Relationship between energetic indices and nonenergetic descriptors for aromaticity
  • Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter 7
  • Aromaticity descriptors based on electron delocalization
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • The electron-sharing indices
  • Aromaticity indices
  • Geometrical aromaticity indices
  • Electronic aromaticity indices
  • Bond-order alternation
  • Aromatic fluctuation index
  • Para-delocalization index
  • Iring
  • Multicenter index
  • Normalized versions of Iring and MCI
  • AV1245 and AVmin
  • Computational details
  • Discussion
  • Six-membered rings
  • Porphyrinic systems
  • C10H10 and C14H14
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter 8
  • The electron density of delocalized bonds (EDDBs) as a measure of local and global aromaticity
  • Introduction
  • Electron density of delocalized bonds
  • The RunEDDB program
  • EDDBP as a local aromaticity descriptor
  • The correlation analyses (T1 )
  • The benzene distortions test
  • Aromaticity changes along chemical reactions
  • The performance comparison of EDDBP and IRing (T2 )
  • Hückel's vs. Craig-Möbius aromaticity in metallacycles
  • Visualization of global aromaticity using the EDDBG/H (r ) function
  • Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter 9
  • Conceptual density functional theory and aromaticity
  • Introduction
  • Conceptual density functional theory
  • Reactivity descriptors
  • Aromaticity and antiaromaticity
  • Aromaticity descriptors
  • Some applications of aromatic compounds
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter 10
  • Antiaromatic compounds: a brief history, applications, and the many ways they escape antiaromaticity
  • Introduction
  • Why can't we make cyclobutadiene?.
  • Antiaromaticity in cyclobutadiene: a molecular orbital analysis
  • How do [4n -rings escape antiaromaticity?
  • Six-interstitial aromaticity-cap-ring interactions remove antiaromaticity
  • Through-space aromaticity-stacking antiaromaticity away
  • Möbius aromaticity-a topological escape from antiaromaticity
  • Excited-state aromaticity-reversing the Hückel rule with light
  • Makeable and usable antiaromatic compounds
  • References
  • Chapter 11
  • Cycloaromatization reactions
  • Introduction-cycloaromatization reactions: making radicals without using radicals
  • Unusual electronic features of cycloaromatization reactions
  • Molecular orbital analysis of cycloaromatization reactions
  • Ionic and zwitterionic cycloaromatizations
  • Metal-catalyzed cycloaromatizations
  • Five-membered heterocyclic diradicals
  • Secondary aromaticity effects in cycloaromatization processes
  • Aromaticity: the effect of additional aromatic rings annealed to the core
  • Electronic control via direct reduction and oxidation of enediyne moiety
  • Unusual electronic features of redox- and photo-activated cycloaromatizations: cyclo-RE-aromatization and activation of remote substituent effects via MO crossings
  • Photochemical C1-C5 cyclization of enynes-an example of rearomatization-driven photoreaction
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
  • Chapter 12
  • Baird aromaticity in excited states and open-shell ground states
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical derivation of Baird's rule
  • Assessing excited-state aromaticity computationally
  • Multidimensional character of aromaticity
  • Geometric indices
  • Energetic indices
  • Magnetic indices
  • Electronic indices
  • Reactivity indices
  • Illustrative applications
  • Fulvenes and aromatic chameleons
  • Expanded porphyrins
  • Ground-state triplets
  • Nonconventional aromaticity
  • Concluding remarks and open challenges.
  • Clarification of how Baird's rule applies to singlet states
  • Monitoring aromaticity along excited-state reaction paths
  • Baird aromaticity in polycyclic systems and macrocyclic systems
  • References
  • Chapter 13
  • Global aromaticity in 2D macrocyclic polyradicaloids and 3D fully conjugated molecular cages
  • Introduction
  • History of aromaticity and various aromaticity rules
  • Aromaticity and diradical character
  • Macrocyclic polyradicaloids with global aromaticity
  • Expanded porphyrinoids with radical character
  • Macrocyclic polyradicaloids with Hückel's (anti )aromaticity
  • Baird-type aromaticity in macrocyclic diradical/polyradical systems
  • Global antiaromaticity in transition state
  • 3D global aromaticity in fully conjugated diradicaloid cages
  • Conclusion and outlook
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter 14
  • Spherical aromaticity in inorganic chemistry
  • Introduction
  • Adaptive natural density partitioning
  • Shielding magnetic response
  • Systems with S-supershell filled
  • Simplest tetrahedral clusters
  • Adamantane dication
  • Multicenter bonding in [AuP (Bu )342+
  • d-AO spherical aromaticity in Ce6O8
  • Systems with P-supershell filled
  • Spherical aromaticity in supertetrahedron B16F4 cluster arising from nonaromatic building blocks
  • [Pd3Sn8Bi64, eight-electron spherical aromatic intermetalloid cluster
  • [Sb@In8Sb123/5 and [Bi@In8Bi123/5 spherical aromatic clusters
  • Charge controlled switch between amp
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  • aromatics and spherical aromaticity: example of ligand stabilized amp
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  • Pd, Pt ) cores
  • Spherical aromaticity in multilayer structures through the prism of AdNDP and magnetic criteria.