After Decades of Global Searching, Scientists Finally Create the Silicon Aromatic Once Thought Impossible

A long-standing chemistry challenge has been solved with the synthesis of a five-atom silicon aromatic ring. The breakthrough validates decades of theory and points toward new industrially relevant compounds. Major scientific advances rarely happen quickly, and this discovery is a clear example of that slow but steady progress. After nearly fifty years of theoretical discussion [...]

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