Aromatic
Aromatic Compounds (wiki)
Typically built around a benzene, and cyclically conjugated. Aromatic is now a misnomer and has name from historical use. Properties:
- Typically unreaactive
- non polar and hydrophobic
- high carbon-hydrogen ratios
- burn with a sooty yellow flame
- can undergo electrophilic substitution reactions and nucleophilic aromatic substitutions Broken into two categories: 1) Benzene ring modelled 2) non-benzoids