Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By ...

Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking ...

Scientists have broken a century-old chemistry rule by creating “impossible” molecules. The breakthrough could reshape drug design, materials science and how chemistry is taught worldwide.

Currently, californium is the heaviest element that exists on Earth, and is the last member of the actinide series with an isotope long-lived enough for work to be carried out in a standard ...

A cornerstone rule of organic chemistry that has guided students and researchers for a century has just been shown to be wrong in a key way. By deliberately building molecules that were long ...

An atomic force microscope (AFM) has revealed how the structure and bonding patterns of organic molecules change as they take on electrical charges (Science 2019, DOI: 10.1126/science.aax5895). The ...

Chemical bonding enables scientists to take the 100-plus elements of the periodic table and combine them in myriad ways to form chemical compounds and materials. The success rate is pretty good, as ...

Students learn to draw electron dot diagrams for atoms and Lewis structures for molecules. Bonding, Part II: Students learn to draw electron dot diagrams for atoms and Lewis structures for molecules.

Illustration of intracluster bond formation, cluster containing two biomolecules, being exposed to UV light (left), causes a chemical bond forming between the two molecules (center), resulting in a ...

Chemistry students the world over are familiar with covalent bonds and hydrogen bonds. Now a study has revealed a strange variety of bond that acts like a hybrid of the two. Its properties raise ...

A chemical bond is the physical phenomenon of chemical substances being held together by attraction of atoms to each other through sharing, as well as exchanging, of electrons -or electrostatic forces ...