Benzene Ring With Circle
Benzene Ring With Circle has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⏣
- Unicode
- U+23E3
About this symbol
⏣, a hexagon with a circle inside, is the other common drawing of benzene, showing its electrons shared evenly around the whole ring rather than in fixed double bonds. The circle notation was introduced by the chemists James Armit and Robert Robinson in 1925.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BENZENE RING WITH CIRCLE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Unicode group
- Chemistry symbol
- Added in
- Unicode 5.0 (2006)
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