Aromaticity: History and Development

作者:Hua Yuhui; Zhang Hong*; Xia Haiping*
来源:Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018, 38(1): 11-28.
DOI:10.6023/cjoc201709009

摘要

Aromaticity is one of the most fundamental concept in organic chemistry. Aromatic compounds generally present special thermodynamic stability. Research on aromaticity can help us to understand the stability essence of aromatic compounds, and thus enables the further prediction and construction of species with stabilization or destablization. The endless richness of aromaticity researches usually originates the nature and criterion of aromaticity. The main emphasis of this review is on a discussion of historical discoveries, definitions and classification of aromaticity-related structural types, as well as various theoretically and experimentally criterions. Furthermore, this review contains the recent development of aromaticity illustrated by recent representative examples.