With growing concerns over fossil fuel depletion and the environmental impacts of petrochemical production, scientists are actively exploring renewable strategies to produce essential industrial ...

Conjugated aromatic molecules and polymers are of interest owing to their use in electronic devices. This Focus issue reports the design and synthesis of conjugated aromatic systems including ...

A collage with images of Michael Faraday, Kathleen Lonsdale, a ship, an oil lamp, and historical crystallography equipment. Credit: Madeline Monroe C&EN/Central Press/Hulton Archive via Getty ...

The arrangement of nitrogen atoms in the hexazine anion is similar to that of carbon atoms in benzene, an aromatic compound that is ubiquitous in nature. Although the term "aromatic" originally ...

Bare aromatic polymers have the potential to be used in a wide range of high-performance and functional materials. However, their synthesis is hindered by the poor solubility of their parent compounds ...

Researchers develop a one pot process to transform aromatic ketones to esters, offering advancements in pharmaceutical synthesis and materials science. Aromatic ketones have traditionally been ...