Front Cover: Toward Bowl‐Shaped Polycyclic Arenes via Scholl Reaction and C—F Bond Activation (Adv. Synth. Catal. 5/2026)

Polycyclic Arenes The cover illustrates the stepwise construction of a geodesic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with a complex architecture. A combination of the Scholl reaction and alumina-mediated cyclodehydrofluorination enables selective formation of hexagons and pentagons, respectively, providing an efficient strategy for assembling the largest molecular fragment of the C70 fullerene. More information can be found in the Research Article by Konstantin Amsharov and co-workers (10.1002/adsc.70325).