Kathleen Lonsdale got in on the ground floor of X-ray crystallography soon after its discovery in the early 20th century, and used it to prove conclusively that the benzene molecule is a flat ...

However, three years after it was first isolated by mechanical exfoliation of graphite 1, there is no doubt that graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms densely packed into a benzene-ring ...

Kathleen was given hexamethylbenzene crystals to study, and in 1929 she was able to prove conclusively that the benzene molecule is in fact a flat ring. This was a remarkable achievement ...

Her discovery in 1929 that the benzene ring was flat using X-ray diffraction methods led to her being considered as one of the leading women in science. During her career she was one of the first ...

Phenanthrene is a planar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, consisting of three fused benzene rings. If we add bulky substituents into the 'bay region' of the molecule, the steric hindrance will cause ...

Toluene and xylenes (methylbenzenes) are substituted benzenes. Although the presence of methyl substituents activates the benzene ring for electrophilic attack, the chemistry of methyl benzenes for ...

Scientists plan to borrow nature’s tools to develop and study fungal compounds further, which could lead to the development of new drugs.