Element No. 6 on the periodic table, carbon can bond with almost every other element ... Natalie Angier's new book, The Cannon, features a wonderful chapter on chemistry that explores the talents ...

Quantum calculations and other experiments suggested a six-bond carbon atom was possible, but the crystal structure serves as photographic proof, says Dean Tantillo at the University of California ...

Chemists at Hokkaido University have experimentally confirmed the existence of a single-electron carbon-carbon bond for the first time (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1). Linus Pauling ...

Their inability to bond ... Angier's book, The Canon (2007), describes the importance of bonds in chemistry and includes this wonderful sentence: "Water may be the solvent of the universe, but ...

Now, researchers have made the first observations of covalent bonds that form when two carbon atoms share a single electron. This unusual bonding behaviour has been seen between a few other atoms ...

The single carbon-carbon bond is among the most familiar covalent connections in organic compounds. But a new study suggests that chemists have yet to fully explore the limits of this basic bond.

In the novel molecule, the boron atom is in a linear arrangement with carbon atoms. "In combination with the triple bond, this is about as uncomfortable as it gets for boron, requiring very ...

The discovery of a stable single-electron covalent bond between two carbon atoms validates a century-old theory. The discovery of a stable single-electron covalent bond between two carbon atoms ...

Medicines come from chemical reactions, and better chemical reactions lead to better medicines. Yet, the most popular reaction used in drug discovery, called the amide coupling, makes an ...

The carbon-hydrogen bond -- 2/3 of all bonds in hydrocarbons -- has defied chemists' attempts to open it up and add new chemical groups. A team has now cracked the strongest of C-H bonds ...