Abstract
A series of the para-substituted 7-aryl-norbornadienyl cation (3) was prepared in FSO3H/SO2ClF solution at -100℃ and their 13C NMR shifts were measured at -80℃. The plots of the chemical shifts (changes in chemical shifts) of cationic carbon, ΔδC+, aganist our calculated new substituent constant, σc+s, gave an excellent correlation (r=0.994), with a ρc+ value of 12.63. These results indicate that the new substituent constants, σc+s, can be successfully employed to compare the relative charge demand of the carbonium ion by π-and πσ-participation.