Metallaaromatic chemistry: history and development

D Chen, Y Hua, H **a - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Since the prediction of the existence of metallabenzenes in 1979, metallaaromatic chemistry
has developed rapidly, due to its importance in both experimental and theoretical fields …

Unconventional aromaticity in organometallics: the power of transition metals

D Chen, Q **e, J Zhu - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Aromaticity, one of the most fundamental concepts in chemistry, has attracted
considerable attention from both theoreticians and experimentalists. Much effort on …

Metalla-aromatics: planar, nonplanar, and spiro

Y Zhang, C Yu, Z Huang, WX Zhang, S Ye… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The concept of aromaticity is one of the most fundamental principles in
chemistry. It is generally accepted that planarity is a prerequisite for aromaticity, and typically …

Recent advances in metallaaromatic chemistry

BJ Frogley, LJ Wright - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Metallaaromatics can be broadly defined as aromatic compounds in which one of the ring
atoms is a transition metal. The metallabenzenes are one important class of these …

The aromatic dianion metalloles

J Wei, WX Zhang, Z ** - Chemical science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Metalloaromatic species are unique and important both experimentally and theoretically.
Significant progress has been made during the past few decades. New aromatic systems …

σ‐Aromaticity in an Unsaturated Ring: Osmapentalene Derivatives Containing a Metallacyclopropene Unit

C Zhu, X Zhou, H **ng, K An, J Zhu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In general, aromaticity can be clarified as π‐and σ‐aromaticity according to the type of
electrons with major contributions. The traditional π‐aromaticity generally describes the π …

Ruthenabenzene: a robust precatalyst

S Gupta, S Su, Y Zhang, P Liu, DJ Wink… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Metallaaromatics constitute a unique class of aromatic compounds where one or more
transition metal elements are incorporated into the aromatic system, the parent of which is …

Electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions of compounds with Craig-Möbius aromaticity

Y Cai, Y Hua, Z Lu, Q Lan, Z Lin, J Fei… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) reactions are widely regarded as characteristic
reactions of aromatic species, but no comparable reaction has been reported for molecules …

Stabilizing Two Classical Antiaromatic Frameworks: Demonstration of Photoacoustic Imaging and the Photothermal Effect in Metalla‐aromatics

C Zhu, Y Yang, M Luo, C Yang, J Wu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Antiaromatic species are substantially less thermodynamically stable than aromatic
moieties. Herein, we report the stabilization of two classical antiaromatic frameworks …

A metallaanthracene and derived metallaanthraquinone

BJ Frogley, LJ Wright - Angewandte Chemie, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Metalla‐analogues of archetypal aromatic molecules are attracting ever increasing interest.
Although metallabenzenes (which fall within this class) have been well studied, fused‐ring …