Fig. 5: Molecular evolution route of PAHs. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Molecular evolution route of PAHs.

From: Molecular elucidating of an unusual growth mechanism for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in confined space

Fig. 5: Molecular evolution route of PAHs.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

PAHs evolve from occluded long chain olefins and light polymethylbenzenes (coined “seeding”) to three- four-ring PAHs behaving as building units for aromatic cluster formation (“growing”), and eventually to cage-passing aromatic clusters (“clustering”).

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