text: Other examples of non-Kekulé molecules are the biradicaloid quinodimethanes, that have a six-membered ring with methylene substituents.
  Non-Kekulé polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons are composed of several fused six-membered rings. The simplest member of this class is triangulene. After unsuccessful attempts by Erich Clar in 1953, trioxytriangulene was synthesized by Richard J. Bushby in 1995, and kinetically stabilized triangulene by Kazuhiro Nakasuji in 2001. However, in 2017 a project led by David Fox and Anish Mistry from the University of Warwick in collaboration with IBM synthesized and imaged triangulene. In 2019, larger homologues of triangulene, consisting of ten ([4]triangulene) and fifteen fused six-membered rings ([5]triangulene) were synthesized in 2019. In 2021, synthesis of the hitherto largest triangulene homologue, consisting of twenty-eight fused six-membered rings ([7]triangulene) was achieved. Scanning tunneling microscopy experiments on triangulene spin chains have revealed the clearest proof yet of the existence of Haldane gap and fractional edge states predicted for spin-1 Heisenberg chain. A related class of biradicals are para-benzynes.
  Other studied biradicals are those based on pleiadene, extended viologens, corannulenes, nitronyl-nitroxide, bis(phenalenyl)s  and teranthenes.
  Pleiadene has been synthesised from acenaphthylene and anthranilic acid / amyl nitrite: