Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts (NICS): Distance Dependence and Revised Criteria for Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity
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- 30 December 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Organic Chemistry
- Vol. 71 (3), 883-893
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jo051746o
Abstract
Nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS) have been used extensively for the identification of aromaticity properties of molecules, ions, intermediates, and transition states since their introduction in 1996 by Schleyer et al. Initially, probes (bq's) were placed at the centers of systems (NICS(0)) and later, 1Å above the molecular planes (NICS(1)). However, contradicting assignments of aromaticity by NICS and other methods were found for some systems. In this article, an alternative NICS-based method is introduced. The method is based on scanning NICS values over a distance and separating them into in-plane and out-of plane contributions. The shapes of the plots of the chemical shifts and their components as a function of the distance of the NICS probe (bq) from the molecular plane give a clear indication of diamagnetic and paramagnetic ring currents. This method is applied to several (4n + 2)- and 4n π-electron systems (molecules and ions) in the singlet and triplet electronic states, including some of the problematic systems mentioned above. It is also shown that relative aromaticities of rings in polycyclic systems (local aromaticities) cannot be estimated by comparing NICS or NICS-scan values.Keywords
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