A research team has discovered an electrochemical method that allows highly selective para-position single-carbon insertion ...

Benzene rings are almost unbreakable in typical reaction conditions. Chemistry has now been developed that selectively breaks these rings open, highlighting their potential as building blocks for ...

The successful formula was to design a so-called anti-aromatic ring in a molecule so that it becomes more robust and can both receive and relay electrons," says Daniel Strand, chemistry researcher ...

“One of the first things students learn about organic chemistry is the amazing stability of aromatic ring systems, with the simplest of these being benzene,” says organometallic chemist ...

Their research adds to studies on combining aromatic rings. Aromatic rings are commonly used for building complex molecules because of their stability and because adding and fusing side groups to ...

Homogentisic acid and hydroquinone are both aromatic compounds (the author alludes to this by referring to the benzene ring of hydroquinone) that have a 6-membered, not an 8-membered, ring. Perhaps a ...

While aromaticity makes hexagonal systems like benzene exceptionally stable, ‘anti’-aromaticity makes four-membered rings like cyclobutadiene show opposite tendencies—the delocalized electrons try to ...

(Nanowerk News) Tuning the para position of benzene moieties is significant for creating biologically active compounds and optoelectronic materials. Yet, attaching a functional handle specifically at ...

To resolve this issue, Wu and co-workers used a process known as benzannulation to add four additional aromatic benzene rings to the PAH framework.

An artist's impression of the newly identified, largest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon detected to date, cyanocoronene. This molecule, composed of seven interconnected benzene rings and a cyano ...