Category:Aromatic compounds

Aromatic compounds, also known as arenes or aromatics, are chemical compounds that contain conjugated planar ring systems with delocalised pi electron clouds instead of discrete alternating single and double bonds. Typical aromatic compounds are benzene and toluene.

Subcategory description

• Category:Simple_aromatic_rings are the fundamental non-polycyclic unsubstituted aromatic rings.
• Category:Polycyclic aromatic compounds are fused aromatic rings and can contain heteroatoms.
  • This subcategory contains Category:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as a subcategory.

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