Issue 15, 2009
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Chemical Communications

What is… aromaticity: a critique of the concept of aromaticity—can it really be defined?

Amnon Stanger*a  

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a Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and The Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
E-mail: stanger@tx.technion.ac.il
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Abstract

Aromaticity has been a basic concept in chemistry for many years, yet it is poorly understood. This Feature Article introduces some questions regarding the concept, describes major paradigms in the field, and emphasizes the contradictions and paradoxes between these paradigms, and between different measures of aromaticity.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B816811C
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
25 Sep 2008
Accepted
12 Jan 2009
First published
09 Feb 2009

Chem. Commun., 2009, 1939-1947

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