摘要:
                                A series of fluorenes in which the 9-position is either substituted with two hydrogens or is part of a three-, four-, or five-membered cycloalkane and the 2-position is substituted with H, NO2, or NH2 has been prepared and the proton and carbon-13 NMR spectra measured.  The proton NMR chemical shifts and coupling constants were obtained from the LOACOON fitting procedure.  The geometries and conformational equilibria were obtained by molecular mechanics methods and used to calculate an average van der Waals' strain energy for the H1' and H8' protons.  The fluorene and spirocyclopentylfluorene were used as model compounds so that the ''special'' magnetic anisotropy effects of cyclopropane and cyclobutane rings could be estimated.  The typical behavior of cyclopropane was confirmed:  upfield shifts of protons located above and below the plane of the ring.  A small downfield shift was found for the spirocyclobutanes; however, it is not large enough to force the conclusion that cyclobutane has a group magnetic anisotropy similar but opposite in direction to cyclopropane.  Proton chemical shifts in this series of compounds cannot be used as an argument for the antiaromaticity of cyclobutane.