16 benzene rings make up bulkiest ever acene

Dodecaphenyltetracene index image

Source: © Royal Society of Chemistry

Largest perphenylacene behaves like tetracene in an inert hydrocarbon sheath

For the first time, chemists created dodecaphenyltetracene. It consists of a tetracene – four fused benzene rings – substituted on every possible position with more benzene rings, 12 of them in total.