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thumb|The general structural formula for acenes
In organic chemistry, the acenes or polyacenes are a class of organic compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons made up of benzene () rings which have been linearly fused. They follow the general molecular formula {{chem2|C_{4n+2}H_{2n+4} }}.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “acene” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.