The relationship between physicochemical properties of biochar-based activated carbons and its adsorption was investigated using an aromatic model compound, phenanthrene. Solid-state (13)C NMR analysis indicated more condensed aromatic structures when pyrolysis temperature increased or after activation process induced. The increasing aromaticity and non-protonated carbon fraction of the activat...

Aromaticity has been lately in the center of attention of chemists with books [1-3], journal special issues [4-10], reviews [11, 12], and publications (these are too numerous to cite). The discoveries of fullerenes, nanotubes, nanocones, and nanotori as well as the recent techniques for obtaining graphene sheets with monatomic thickness and astounding properties have enlarged our views about th...

It is demonstrated that there is a direct connection between aromaticity and the anisotropy of the π-electron density on planes parallel to the molecular ring. The electron density anisotropy on the plane is measured through the ratio of the in-plane Hessian eigenvalues associated with the eigenvectors lying in the plane. Computations on a wide-ranging set of well-characterized monocyclic syste...

The ring-current aromaticity of the bicalicene molecule arises, in spite of the 16 π carbon perimeter, from strong local diatropic circulations on the two pentagonal rings, as shown by current-density maps computed at the ipsocentric RHF/6-311G** and DFT/6-311G** levels of theory. Conjugated-circuit models cannot capture this pattern of circulation as it arises from 'ionic' contributions in a v...

Molecular aromaticity in the linear polyacenes is investigated using an atoms in molecules based six center index (SCI-AIM) which measures the electron delocalization. SCI-AIM values for the linear polyacenes indicate decreasing aromaticity going from outer to inner rings in the polyacene series. The SCI-AIM approach is compared to a Mulliken-like approach, and a critical comparison to the PDI ...

Since its introduction by August Kekulé in 1865,1 the concept of aromaticity has been continuously conquering new territories in chemistry (refs 2-20 are only a small fraction of the published articles, reviews, books, and conference proceedings on this subject). Initially, aromaticity was developed for the following classes of organic compounds: (i) monocyclic planar conjugate hydrocarbons and...

Benzene represents the showcase of Hückel aromaticity. The silicon analog, hexasilabenzene, has consequently been targeted for decades. We now report an intensely green isomer of Si6R6 (R being 2,4,6-triisopropylphenyl) with a tricyclic structure in the solid state featuring silicon atoms with two, one, and no substituents outside the ring framework. The highly dispersed 29Si nuclear magnetic r...

Aromaticity can be interpreted as extra stabilization of a cyclic unsaturated molecule arising from cyclic conjugation of mr-electrons. The extra stabilization energy is estimated relative to the r-electron energy of a hypothetical reference molecule formed by the "localized" ir bonds. It is termed the resonance energy due to aromaticity. Our graph theory of aromaticity defines this type of res...

NICS methodology has been applied to study the change in aromaticity in several aromatic rings (benzene, pyrrol, triazine, hexafluorobenzene) on complexation with several ions (Li, Na, K. F, Cl). For this purpose all the isolated and complexed rings have been optimized at the MP2/6-31++G(d,p) level of theory. Using GIAO method to calculate NICS values, the change in aromaticity on complexation ...

The vanadium-vanadium interactions in the polygonal aggregates of d¹ vanadium(IV) atoms, with a total of 4k + 2 vanadium electrons (k an integer) imbedded in an electronically inactive borate matrix in certain vanadoborate structures are analogous to the ring carbon-carbon interactions in diamagnetic planar cyclic hydrocarbons. They thus represent a high-spin analogue of aromaticity. Thus, the ...