Chemical bonding theory offers a framework for understanding how atoms associate to form molecules and materials through the sharing, donation or redistribution of electrons. From the early ...

The distribution of outermost shell electrons, known as valence electrons, of organic molecules was observed for the first time. As the interactions between atoms are governed by the valence electrons ...

Researchers from Skoltech, SberUniversity, the M.N. Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics of UB RAS and Ural Federal University ...

You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding. They're thought to be too deep inside an atom and close to the nucleus to meaningfully ...

For the first time, researchers have created a solid compound containing a beryllium-beryllium bond (Science 2023, DOI: 10.1126/science.adh4419). The compound is diberyllocene, in which each beryllium ...

There’s a new bond in town, and this secret agent works best in extreme situations. The bond, of the chemical variety, occurs in the presence of very strong magnetic fields, such as those found around ...