Back Cover: Electronic Materials: An Antiaromatic Propeller Made from the Four‐Fold Fusion of Tetraoxa[8]circulene and Perylene Diimides (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48/2022)

An antiaromatic molecular propeller acts as a strong electron acceptor, fluorophore, and dye in bulk heterojunction solar cells. In their Research Article (e202212293), Glib V. Baryshnikov, Colin Nuckolls, Michael Pittelkow, co-workers report how annulation of four perylene diimides to tetraoxa[8]circulene gives dynamic non-planar π-conjugated molecule with 32 aromatic rings surrounding central planarized cycloctatetraene. The accepts up ten electrons, which induces significant gain aromaticity.