Research Article

Aromaticities of Five Membered Heterocycles through Dimethyldihydropyrenes Probe by Magnetic and Geometric Criteria

Table 1

Comparison of 1H NMR chemical shifts (calculated), % bond fixation of dihydropyrene nucleus, and % aromaticities of five membered heterocycles with benzene, calculated through (2).

EntryHeterocyclesDHPδ% bond
fixation
% aromaticity (relative to benzene)

11−6.29
2Benzene3−1.9159.1100
3Pyrrole12−3.3140.368.1
4Thiophene18−4.1628.848.9
5Oxazole20−4.820.234.1
6Isoxazole21−3.5139.663.5
7Thiazole22−4.5923.038.9
8Isothiazole23−3.9933.859.1
9Pyrazole24−2.5250.986.1
10Imidazole25−3.8133.556.9
11Oxadiazole26−3.5936.862.2
12Triazole27−2.9148.481.8