About the symposium

Aromaticity, a key concept in chemistry, explains the stability and other properties of many carbon-based compounds, including those that are crucial to industry, such as benzene, or those that are even essential to life. Recently, researchers have been investigating whether this idea can also be applied to compounds that consist only of metals – a concept known as all-metal aromaticity. This could open up exciting possibilities for improving energy storage and transport, as well as for developing advanced quantum technologies.

In order to discuss the current state-of-the-art and challenges of the fields as well as to exploit future directions, the All-Metal Aromaticity Symposium will host an outstanding group of researchers spanning theory, synthesis, and analytical methods, providing an excellent foundation for stimulating discussions on all aspects of all-metal aromaticity. The symposium will take place in Heidelberg on 16–17 November 2026  at the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH), located in Heidelberg's historic city centre.

Date: Mo 17, Nov. (noon) - Tue 18 Nov (ca 17:00 h)

Main topics

• A: Materials
• B: Numerical Studies
• C: Experimental methods

Invited Speakers (confirmed): Raphael Berger, Victoria Däschlein-Gessner, Stefanie Dehnen, Silvia Escayola, Thomas Fässler, Israel Fernández, Cina Foroutan-Nejad, Michael Gottfried, Lutz Greb, Rüdiger Klingeler, Stephen Liddle, Álvaro Muñoz-Castro, Henrik Ottosson, Jordi Poater, Friedemann Reinhardt, David Scheschkewitz, Miquel Solà, Zhong-Ming Sun, Dage Sundholm, and Florian Weigend.

The tentative program will soon be found here.