What is the major component of an aromatic compound?
The major property of an aromatic compound is its aromatic resonance stabilization. Take benzene as an example: one would first hypothesize that a cyclic compound with six double bonds would suffer from steric strain. In reality benzene is one of the most stable compounds due to the fact that its double bonds quickly cycle around it ring leading to stabilization of the molecule. Although benzene is the most common example of this behavior, many other compounds can also exhibit aromaticity if they follow Huckel’s 4n+2 rule.
