Prof. Christopher Beaudry Oregon State University Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 11:00am Chemistry Building, Room 400 Organic Seminar Aromatic rings are a familiar structural motif in natural products, pharmaceuticals, proteins, and other molecules. Synthetic chemists often install arenes intact and then carry these groups through a synthetic sequence until the target is reached. Conversely, an aromatic ring may be viewed as a densely packaged array of contiguous functionalized reactive atoms. I will present some historical examples and several recent examples from our laboratory where aromatic rings were unraveled to yield reactive intermediates for synthesis.