Keywords
Quantum mechanics
Resonance hybrid
Aromacity
Graphene
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Abstract
The crossroad represented by this 2025 year between the discovery of benzene in 1825 and quantum mechanics in 1925, it is taken to describe the main milestones that emerged provided when quantum mechanics was applied to the interpretation of the electronic structure of benzene (resonance hybrid and aromaticity). Also, the comprehensive understanding of the electronic shape of graphene owing to quantum mechanics is revealed through the description of chemically intuitive concepts such as zigzag or arm-chair structures.
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