The formation of different 32 p-electron systems derived from a prominent small fullerene given by C 28 , allows to evaluate several approaches ensuring an electronic shell closure in terms of the characteristic chemical shift anisotropy (CSA) and long-range magnetic response properties for spherical aromatic compounds. Our results show that the inclusion of extra electrons and the doping of the cage, are able to sustain a long-range shielding cone when an external field is oriented in a specific orientation. Such properties are inherent characteristics of spherical aromatic compounds, which are not obtained in the neutral C 28 fullerene, and in the exo-bonded approach leading to C 28 H 4 . Thus, the doping of the cage is suggested as the most suitable approach to modify the overall count of electrons, leading to the expected response properties for further design of highly aromatic fullerenes.fullerenes, heterofullerenes, magnetic response, spherical aromaticity 1 | I N TR ODU C TI ON Carbon-based nanomaterials have attracted considerable attention since the discovery of fullerenes where many efforts have been devoted to understand their important physical and chemical properties. [1][2][3][4] Most studies of fullerenes are related to C 60 or larger cages, [3,[5][6][7][8][9][10] however, smaller structures containing fewer carbon atoms have also been reported. [3,[11][12][13] Such cages are particularly interesting owing to their high-curved surfaces provided by adjacent five-membered faces. C 20 is the smallest possible example of a fullerene cage composed solely by pentagonal faces leading to a highly strained structure detected as short-lived species. [14] As a result, fullerenes within 24 to 32 atoms are expected to be prone to reduce the strain toward more favorable cages, with C 28 showing a particularly stability given by its larger abundance related to other counterparts. [13,[15][16][17] Since the early work of Kroto on the stability of smaller fullerenes, [15] C 28 has been considered as a tetrahedral cage with an open-shell electronic structure. [16,18] A plausible strategy to achieve an electronic shell closing retaining the hollow fullerene cage, is to achieve the closest magic number of valence electrons (ve) which amounts to 32-ve, as has been explored previously since the early description of C 28 fullerene. [19] According to the enhanced stability expected by the electronic shell closure situation, several-related structures has been proposed theoretically through the years. [11,17,[20][21][22][23] In this sense, C 28 42 , C 24 N 4 , and C 28 H 4 have been described to introduce extra electrons to the p-electron system.Such systems fulfill the Hirsch 2(N 1 1) 2 rule [24][25][26][27] (N 5 3) for spherical aromaticity, where an external field induces a current circulation of electrons giving rise to an induced magnetic field opposing (shielding) the external field at the center of the ring. This induced magnetic field is complemented by a deshielding region at the outer contour as recently discuss...