The pKa of azatriptycene (9H-9,10(1',2')-benzenoacrldine) (4) is measured and found to be 2.1. This value is obtained by potentiometric titration of 4 at 25°with HCI04 In anhydrous HOAc and is related to the aqueous system through the relationship of Wegmann and Simon. The inductive effect of adding benzo-substituents to 1 reduces the basicity an average of 2.8 pK units per substituent.Aryl amines are approximately six orders of magnitude less basic than aliphatic amines. This decrease in basicity is attributed to both resonance and inductive effects. Van der Krogt and Wepster (9,11) have measured the basicities of quinuclidine (1), benzoquinuclidine (2), and dibenzoquinuclidine (3) (pKa's 10.58, 7.79, and 4.46, respectively, at 25°C). Since the nitrogen lone pairs in these compounds are orthogonal to the pi systems, resonance effects are minimal, and the ApKa's of ~3 pK units which Wepster observed are attributed solely to the inductive effects of the phenyl rings. We have now measured the pKa of the final compound in this series, azatriptycene (12) [9H-9,10(1',2')-benzenoacridine] (4), and report the change in basicity for the addition of the third benzo substituent to quinuclidine.