Check out Ennis & Garden group MSc graduate Lily Clague’s impressive work on the bottom-up formation of benzene from acetylene on olivine mineral surfaces; featured on the cover of ACS Earth & Space Chemistry. The spectroscopy wasn’t quite at the stage to make the article although we are currently making headway into experimental validation of her theoretical work.
Clague et al. (2024) ACS Earth Space Chem. 2024, 8, 5, 945–956