The term aromaticity was initially introduced to describe the properties of molecules with special aromatic odor, such as benzene, and now is considered as one of the most important concepts in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aromaticity describes a class of cyclic, conjugated molecules that exhibit enhanced thermodynamic stability and a characteristic response to magnetic fields. In systems following Hückel’s rule, a ...

The infinity symbol–shaped molecule known as infinitene caught chemists’ attention in 2021. Calculations from a team at the University of Helsinki now suggest that the molecule might be aromatic after ...

Excited-state aromaticity refers to the transient stabilisation or destabilisation of cyclic π-electron systems upon photoexcitation. In the electronic ground state many organic compounds obey ...