• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.1840-1844
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• 2004

The mass spectra of benzophenones, 2-benzoylthiophenes, 2-benzoylpyrroles, and 2-benzoylfurans which have substituents at the m- and p-positions of the benzoyl ring were analyzed to find correlations against the Hammett substituent parameter ${\sigma}\;and\;{\sigma}^+$. The slopes of the plots of the intensities of the fragments from the heterocycles against those of the benzene gave sets of meaningful values for the indices of aromaticity of the heterocycles: benzene 1.00; thiophene 0.94, pyrrole 0.82, and furan 0.74.