Charge distributions and chemical effects. XL. Chemical bonds in benzenoid hydrocarbons

Abstract

Benzenoid hydrocarbons were examined using a bond energy scheme featuring the role of atomic charges. The latter were conveniently deduced from appropriate correlations between theoretical results and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance shifts. Atomization energies calculated in this manner agree with their experimental counterparts to within 0.36 kcal mol-1 (average deviation). It appears that benzenoid hydrocarbons can be efficiently described in terms of local charge density properties. In the absence of any distinctive specific feature characterizing benzenoids, this particular description of chemical bonds ultimately results in a unifying genealogy smoothly relating to one another the various possible types of CC and CH bonds which are formed by sp2 and sp3 carbons.