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Innovative synthetic technology unlocks new classes of planar organometallic compounds

Coordination chemistry of annulenes, porphyrins and related compounds. Credit: Nature (2025). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/S41586-025-08841-2 Since the 1950s, organometallic chemistry has been a widely explored field, as there are six Nobel Prizes in the category. However, the discovery of a new class of organometallic compounds remains a rare occurrence. A team of researchers from China and the US decided to change it…