KOCHI: When he mixed cartoon with the spirit of chemistry, the result was accolades from the scientist community. It was the brush strokes by Kerala-born scient ...

And now, after years of work, they’ve finally explored an idea originally proposed in 1931: a chemical bond formed using just a single electron. This, of course, ...

That central bond is stretched out to be relatively long for a C–C bond, which makes it susceptible to losing one electron in an oxidation reaction, creating the elusive single-electron bond.

Researchers had previously coaxed two atoms to bond (SN: 4/12/18). But directly observing how chemical bonds change in number “was not done before,” says physicist Ute Kaiser of Ulm University ...