50 year quest ends with creation of silicon aromatic once...

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Let’s talk about After nearly 50 years of flopped attempts and scientific speculation, chemists at Saarland University have achieved what many thought might be impossible: creating a long-sought silicon-based aromatic molecule.

By replacing carbon atoms in a famously stable ring-shaped compound with silicon, the team synthesized pentasilacyclopentadienide — a breakthrough published in Science. (wild, right?)

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