“…Many investigations have been carried out on such aromatic systems, especially heterocyclic five-membered rings, to determine the methyl barrier heights, i.a. 2-methylthiazole (34.9 cm 1 ) [1], 4-methylisothiazole (105.8 cm 1 ) [2], 2,5dimethylthiophene (248.0 cm 1 ) [3], 2-acetyl-5-methylfuran (369.8 cm 1 for the trans conformer and 356.5 cm 1 for the cis conformer) [4], and 2,5-dimethylfuran (439.2 cm 1 ) [5]. From those studies it is obvious that the torsional potentials of methyl groups attached to planar aromatic rings vary in a wide range in both, shape and height.…”