Absolute hardness calculated by the MNDO method has been shown to be a good measure of aromaticity for 14 benzenoid hydrocarbons. Comparisons among hardnesses at different levels of approximation are given. The parallelism of the aromaticity and hardness concepts in benzenoids is elaborated.
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