Aromatic compounds play an important role in chemistry and biology as well as in numerous branches of industry. Although aromaticity was initially thought to be exclusive to carbon cycles, it has ...
The latest short science news items from C&EN. Saito explains that selenium’s large size allows overlapping σ orbitals from the six atoms to create aromaticity. The phenylselenyl groups donate ...
Image generated from an X-ray crystal structure shows a molecule with a five-membered silicon ring at its core. This X-ray crystal structure of the pentasilacyclopentadienide synthesized by David ...