(Phys.org)—John C. K. Chu and Tomislav Rovis of Colorado State University and Columbia University have devised a strategy for C-C bond formation at inert tertiary C-H bonds of amides. This reaction ...

For a little more than a century, chemists have believed that strong atomic links called covalent bonds are formed when atoms share one or more electron pairs. Now, researchers have made the first ...

"SOMETIMES IT SEEMS to me that a bond between two atoms has become so real, so tangible, so friendly, that I can almost see it. Then I awake with a little shock, for a chemical bond is not a real ...

In the realms of supramolecular chemistry, crystal engineering, and biology, noncovalent interactions play a critical role in shaping three-dimensional structures. Hydrogen bonds are the most well ...

Last month we heard about a brand new solid form of carbon, separate to the graphite and diamond forms that we already know so well. Called Q-Carbon because of the way that it is created (carbon is ...

Inverse reports that scientists have recorded video of atoms bonding and separating for the very first time. The research team used transmission electron microscopy in collaboration with the SALVE ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

Scientists filmed a pair of rhenium atoms (simulated here in green) as they bonded over a carbon nanotube (grey) Courtesy of the University of Nottingham Scientists have captured video of a pair of ...

Researchers from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, under the direction of Professor Holger Braunschweig, a boron specialist, have created a molecule with a boron-carbon triple bond, known as a ...