RT Book,_Section T1 Theoretical Study of Change in Aromaticity of Aromatic Rings upon Complexation with a Cation/Anion A1 Rodríguez Otero, Jesús A1 Cabaleiro Lago, Enrique Manuel A1 Peña Gallego, María de los Ángeles A1 Montero Campillo, María de la Merced AB 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 was assessed. From the calculated values of NICS(1) and NICS ZZ (1) the only relevant conclusion is that a very small change in aromaticity takes place; however, no trend is observed. Moreover, a large discrepancy between the results from the two aromatic descriptors is found PB MDPI SN 3-906980-19-7 YR 2007 FD 2007 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26829 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26829 LA eng NO Rodríguez-Otero, J.; Cabaleiro-Lago, E.M.; Peña-Gallego, A.; Montero-Campillo, M.M. Theoretical Study of Change in Aromaticity of Aromatic Rings upon Complexation with a Cation/Anion, in Proceedings of the 11th International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 1–30 November 2007, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland, doi:10.3390/ecsoc-11-01362 NO The 11th International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry session Computational Chemistry DS Minerva RD 24 abr 2026