Interaction of naphthalene, a-methylnaphthalene, and hexamethylbenzene with OH groups of SiO2, HNaY and H-ZSM-5 zeolites was studied by IR spectroscopy. The results are compared with data obtained for other types of organic bases. Specificity in the generation of H-complexes of olefins, arenes, naphthalenes, N- and O-bases with Bronsted surface sites was elucidated. Each ype of base appears to have its particular correlation of (PA(a) -PA(b)) and the shift of Delta nu(OH) band in H-complexes. It has been found that if (PA(a) -PA(b)) is less than 85+/-5 kcal/mol, the formation of ion pairs is thermodynamically more favorable than that of H-complexes for all types of organic compounds.