The Chemical Communications journal features on its front cover of the September 2025 issue the research article “Aromaticity of All-Metal Clusters” by Prof. Miquel Solà in collaboration with Dr. Alvaro Muñoz-Castro group.
The first all-metal aromatic cluster, Al42?, face-capped by an M+ cation (M = Li, Na, Cu), was detected in 2001. Since then, several all-metal aromatic clusters have been extensively studied. Here, we review the most significant developments that have occurred mainly in our labs, including topics ranging from the difficulty of measuring aromaticity in metal clusters to the use of current techniques to investigate aromaticity in both small and large metal clusters.
The corresponding paper was published recently:
Miquel Solà, Alvaro Muñoz-Castro
Aromaticity of All-Metal Clusters
Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 14280-14291
DOI: 10.1039/D5CC03842A
Girona, September 25th, 2025
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