The magnetic criterion of aromaticity is based on the ability of a cyclic system to support a ring current. If the ring current has the diatropic sense, the system is aromatic; if the sense is paratropic, the system is antiaromatic. Attribution of aromaticity ab initio therefore reduces to the calculation and visualization of induced current density. This can be achieved at modest computational...

A number of hexaarylbenzene compounds were studied theoretically, in order to compare energy changes as a result of the toroidal delocalization effect that is characteristic of all these species. The energy was studied taking advantage of locally designed isodesmic reactions. Results indicate that the amount of aromaticity manifested by each substituent is a factor that should be considered whe...

A mononuclear ruthenium complex, [RuII(L)(bpy)2](PF6), with a naphthoquinone-annelated imidazole ligand HL (2-(pyridin-2-yl)-1H-naphtho[2,3-d]imidazole-4,9-dione) was synthesized and structurally characterized. Electrochemical study reveals that the Ru complex shows four reversible redox waves at +0.98 V, −1.13 −1.53 −1.71 V versus SCE in acetonitrile, which are assigned to Ru(II)/Ru(III), L−/L...