![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20080920040207im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Researchers Confirm Benzene-like Electron Delocalization of Important Molecule
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June 19, 2008
![Shih-Yuan Liu](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20080920040207im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/sy_liu_l.jpg) | Researchers in the lab of University of Oregon chemist Shih-Yuan Liu have successfully synthesized and structurally characterized boron-nitrogen compounds that are isoelectronic and isostructural to the fundamentally important benzene molecule. Full story |
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