Is graphene aromatic?

We analyze the chemical bonding in graphene using a fragmental approach, the adaptive natural density partitioning method, electron sharing indices, and nucleus-independent chemical shift indices. We prove that graphene is aromatic, but its aromaticity is different from the aromaticity in benzene, coronene, or circumcoronene. Aromaticity in graphene is local with two π-electrons delocalized over every hexagon ring. We believe that the chemical bonding picture developed for graphene will be helpful for understanding chemical bonding in defects such as point defects, single-, double-, and multiple vacancies, carbon adatoms, foreign adatoms, substitutional impurities, and new materials that are derivatives of graphene. © 2011 Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Authors
Popov I.A.1 , Bozhenko K.V. 2 , Boldyrev A.I.1
Journal
Number of issue
2
Language
English
Pages
117-123
Status
Published
Volume
5
Year
2012
Organizations
  • 1 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, 0300 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322, United States
  • 2 Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, 6 Miklukho-Maklaya St., Moscow 117198, Russian Federation
Keywords
adaptive natural density partitioning (AdNDP); aromaticity; chemical bonding; electronic aromaticity indices; Graphene; multicenter indice (MCI)
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