As we celebrate the anniversary of benzene's isolation, we must remember that scientific centenaries carry additional agendas ...

A team of chemists and astronomers have made a discovery in the field of astrochemistry: the identification of cyanocoronene, the largest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) ever detected in space.

Tobias Pausch, Ph.D. student in the research group headed by Dr. Schmidt and lead author of the study, states, "The squareimine NDI2F42 has a strong affinity for aromatic compounds such as benzene ...

Benzene is big business. A natural part of crude oil, the chemical is a starting material for plastics, drugs, detergents, and more. Yet because of the molecule’s hardiness, limited chemical ...

Materials: Two ways to tame a radical Date: April 24, 2013 Source: The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Summary: Trapping free electrons with polycyclic aromatic molecules ...

Now, in research published in Nature, Zhaomin Hou and colleagues from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan have demonstrated a way to use a metallic complex, trinuclear titanium ...

Researchers have long assumed that benzene is a precursor to interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), molecules that scientists think act as reservoirs of cosmic carbon. Benzene ...

Many organic molecules consist of aromatic benzene rings, ie flat rings made up of six carbon atoms. A simple example is graphene. However, such molecules do not change properties or shape if ...