Experimental Verification of the Homoaromaticity of 1,3,5-Cycloheptatriene and Evaluation of the Aromaticity of Tropone and the Tropylium Cation by Use of the Dimethyldihydropyrene Probe
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Abstract
By use of a dimethyldihydropyrene experimental probe for aromaticity, 1,3,5-cycloheptatriene (16) is demonstrated to be a neutral homoaromatic hydrocarbon! On the basis of (1)H NMR results, 16 is judged to be ~30%, tropone 18 ~20%, and tropylium 22 ~50% as aromatic as benzene. The latter result may be an underestimation because of charge delocalization. The B3LYP/6-31G* calculated geometries and GIAO-HF/6-31G*//B3LYP/6-31G* calculated NMR chemical shifts and nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS) support these conclusions. These estimates were obtained by synthesis of the annelated dihydropyrenes 7 (tropone fused), 9 (1,3,5-cycloheptatriene fused), and 10 (tropylium fused). [4 + 3] Cycloaddition of the isofuran 5 with an oxyallyl cation (prepared from 2,4-dibromopentan-3-one) gave the C7 fused dihydropyrene 6 in 77% yield. Elimination of water gave tropone 7 in 61% yield, which, via LiAlH(4) reduction to alcohol 8 (48% yield) and treatment with HBF(4), gave quantitatively tropylium cation 10. When ketone 7 was reduced with AlH(3) (generated from AlCl(3)/LiAlH(4)) in ether/benzene at 25 °C, the isomeric cycloheptatrienes 11 (70% yield) and 9 (15% yield) were obtained.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
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