Extraordinary Transformations to Achieve the Synthesis of Remarkable Aromatic Compounds

Note from the Editor: When we walk around a sculpture, it can speak to us in many ways, sometimes quite differently from various view points. Central to Tetsuo Nozoe and the Nozoe Autograph Book project are novel aromatic compounds. Just look at nearly any page and such compounds jump out at us. We can categorize them in many ways. Their structures. Their physical properties. Their pharmacological and toxicological properties. Their commercial utilities. Their symmetry. Their size. In this essay, Graham Bodwell brings to us his analysis of the various ways in which some of the most remarkable of these compounds have been ingeniously synthesized. We are privileged to have Bodwell's vision and his sense of organization and beauty. Tetsuo Nozoe would have beamed! —Jeffrey I. Seeman Guest Editor University of Richmond Richmond, Virginia 23173, USA E‐mail: jseeman@richmond.edu