Anderson at Oxford University in the UK, have for the first time isolated pure carbon rings, as well as imaging them with sufficient resolution to characterize their bonding structure. Researchers ...

Bct-carbon consists of sheets of four-atom carbon rings linked together by strong bonds. The team studied 15 possible structures and found the transparent bct-carbon not only required lower ...

That structure, mapped for the first time using ... This molecule has a flat hexagonal ring made of six carbon atoms. An extra carbon atom sticks off each vertex of the ring, like six tiny arms.

The team developed stable 3D ring structures to replace flat aromatic rings. The synthesis involves inserting nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon atoms into bicyclobutane. These new structures could enhance ...