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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