In a world first, the team, led by Professor Stephen Liddle, discovered a new type of aromatic molecule made entirely of ...

Aromaticity is one of chemistry’s oldest concepts to describe the behavior of molecules. Chemists created it 150 years ago to help visualize and explain the bonding, structure, and reactivity of ...

In the January/February issue of the magazine American Scientist, Chemistry Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann took exception to scientists applying the concept of aromaticity beyond organic molecules to ...

Researchers found that antiaromatic planar norcorrole molecules can form close face-to-face interactions to give structures with increased aromaticity. This behavior is quite different from that of ...

Scientists have achieved the first real-time visualization of how "excited-state aromaticity" emerges within just hundreds of femtoseconds and then triggers a molecule to change from bent to planar ...

The concept of aromaticity underpins much of modern organic chemistry, describing the unusual stability and reactivity of cyclic molecules whose π-electrons are delocalised over a planar framework.

In 1862, a chemist nodded off in front of a fire and began to dream. August Kekulé had been pondering the most pressing question in his field at the time: what was the chemical structure of a curious ...

"Our discovery extends the concept of 'aromaticity', and we have shown that we can use this concept in organic photochemistry," says Bo Durbeej. The study has been funded by the Olle Engkvist ...

‘Controversial’, ‘ suspicious ’, ‘questionable’ and even ‘ an exercise in chemical futility ’ – these are only some of the ways scientists have described the concept of aromaticity. And that’s in ...

Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW7 2AY, UK. Instructions: To view PDB files, you will need a PDB viewer such as Chime or Chem3D. To view the ...