After nearly 50 years of failed attempts and scientific speculation, chemists at Saarland University have achieved what many ...
A long-standing chemistry challenge has been solved with the synthesis of a five-atom silicon aromatic ring. The breakthrough validates decades of theory and points toward new industrially relevant ...
The term aromaticity is a basic, long-standing concept in chemistry that is well established for ring-shaped carbon compounds. Aromatic rings consisting solely of metal atoms were, however, heretofore ...
The history of ‘everyone’s favorite hexagon’ illustrates the resonance of basic science and how discoveries build over time ...