My Favorite Aromatic Compounds—A Tribute to Friedrich August Kekulé

摘要: [For a discussion of this picture, please see the Editor’s postscript at end paper] Note from Editor: We are all collectors. All one needs to do is explore flea market, an antique fair or especially weekend street market understand range human collections. Tetsuo Nozoe, whom project celebrates, collected autographs as well friendship those who signed his books! What we collect doesn't necessarily have be tangible. We memories, stories, and anecdotes. chemists particularly privileged: also molecules reactions. In essay that follows, Professor Henning Hopf shares with us collection favorite aromatic compounds. perfect chemist undertaken sharing, for he has been active in field novel compounds over four decades. Furthermore, deeply philosophical scientist. I very much admire 2008 paper Roald Hoffmann, “Learning Molecules Distress” published Angewandte Chemie, journal same pubilshers The Chemical Record. As you read imagine just welcomed home giving tour artwork. walls covered works Boekelheide, Cram, Fittig, Huckel, Kuck, Mullen, Newman, Scott, Willstatter among others. Oh, yes, there's two! Enjoy your time special museum. —Jeffrey I. Seeman Guest Editor University Richmond Richmond, Virginia 23173, USA E-mail: jseeman@richmond.edu