In 1931, the Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling suggested that covalent bonds made from just a single, unpaired electron could exist but these single-electron bonds would likely be much weaker than a ...

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of ...

showing that it represents a new type of carbon-centered diradical with a single dative bond between the phosphorus and the terminal carbon. This is the first known compound where a carbon center ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

Researchers are opening up new horizons in chemistry: They present the world's first triple bond between the atoms boron and carbon. Boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen: these four elements can ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...