Aromaticity: Quo Vadis

Merino, Gabriel
Fernández, Israel
Foroutan-Nejad, Cina
Lazzeretti, Paolo
Frenking, Gernot
Anderson, Harry L.
Sundholm, Dage
Cossío, Fernando P.
Petrukhina, Marina A.
Wu, Jishan
Wu, Judi I.
Restrepo, Albeiro
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Aromaticity is one of the most deeply rooted concepts in chemistry. But why, if two-thirds of existing compounds can be classified as aromatic, is there no consensus on what aromaticity is? sigma−, pi−, delta−, spherical, Möbius, or all-metal aromaticity. why are so many attributes needed to specify a property? Is aromaticity a dubious concept? This perspective aims to reflect where the aromaticity community is and where it is going ​
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