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A periodic system of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for predictive molecular growth processes

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: ]tetraphene, and [5]helicene. Secondary hydrogen-loss and successive reactions produce even larger 2D and 3D aromatics, such as nanobowls and fullerenes, and their building blocks (corannulene and coronene). This framework provides a unifying and predictive description of PAH growth across combustion and circumstellar environments such as carbon-rich envelopes of late-type Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars and planetary nebulae.

Source: Chemical Science

DOI: 10.1039/d6sc05859k

Authors: Wang Li, Hu Ju, Ming-Gao Xu, Shane J. Goettl, Jiu-Zhong Yang, Long Zhao, Ralf I. Kaiser

Institutions: University of Science and Technology of China, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Hefei Institute of Technology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Language: English

Topic: Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds

Subfield: Organic Chemistry

Field: Chemistry

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: U.S. Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Basic Energy Sciences

Awards: INVESTIGATING THE CHEMICAL DYNAMICS OF BIMOLECULAR REACTIONS OF DICARBON & TRICARBON MOLECULES WITH HYDROCARBONS IN COMBUSTION FLAMES, G222768804, G4815958431, G5648016710, G6648026040, G6846094763

OpenAlex ID: W7211919198

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