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aromatic compound
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class of organical compounds whose structure includes at least one cycle of partially unsaturated bonds with delocalized pi electrons all around
Research
61,623 papers- Aromatic ring-opening metathesis.Nature · 2025
- Microbial production of aromatic compounds and synthesis of high-performance bioplastics.Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry · 2024
- The hidden aromaticity in borazine.RSC advances · 2022
- Amidinato silylene-based inorganic aromatic rings.Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) · 2024
- Engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for the synthesis of aromatic compounds.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2025
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2D model of a benzene molecule. The carbon atoms joined into a "ring" with conjugated double-bonds defines benzene as "aromatic". Aromatic compounds or arenes are organic compounds "with a chemistry typified by benzene" and "cyclically conjugated." The word "aromatic" originates from the past grouping of molecules based on odor, before their general chemical properties were understood. The current definition of aromatic compounds does not have any relation to their odor. Aromatic compounds are now defined as cyclic compounds satisfying Hückel's rule. Aromatic compounds have the following general properties:
Typically unreactive