The WCU (World Class University) chemistry research team, led by Professor Kim Dong-ho and Professor Jonathan Sessler, has published a study on the rose-originated rosarin molecule. Rosarin is an aromatic molecule that originates from materials with real scent, such as benzene and naphthalene, and refers to carbohydrate compounds that form a flat-ring structure. Such carbohydrate compounds are made through the sharing of electrons between carbons, and possess a strong stability compared to the identical carbon composition of linear molecules. For this reason, these aromatic molecular sieves are readily found in the various materials used in our daily lives. However, recent studies have begun to focus on anti-aromatic molecules because the energy features of anti-aromatic molecules exceed molecular scientific aspects, exhibiting application possibilities for such optical elements as energy formation and conveyance. In general, these anti-aromatic molecules have been reported only rarely in exceptional conditions due to their loss of flat structure and the disappearance of aromaticity. The WCU chemistry team has synthesized a stable anti-aromatic material and identified the features of the intermediate. The team’s research article was published on December 10th as the cover article in the online version of Nature Chemistry (IF 20.524), a sister journal of Nature. This study has received attention for its success not only in synthesizing an anti-aromatic molecule, but also controlling the aromaticity simply with reactions of acid or base and realizing a system with three optical characteristics. These characteristics are expected to present promising clues to the development of next-generation materials, such as the transformation of the integrated circuit processing method from the existing binary numeral-based computational process to a method based on ternary numbers.