Chemical bonding – Page 5
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First arsenic–germanium double bond made
Scientists use push–pull substitution to synthesise heavy imine
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Valence bond theory probes fundamental nature of hydrogen bonding
New insight reignites covalent versus electrostatics debate
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Puzzle of why very similar sugars can taste much sweeter than others solved
The sweetest saccharides form the strongest and shortest hydrogen bonds
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Nanotube locked inside a porphyrin
Rotaxane-like assembly formed from mechanically interlocked carbon nanotubes and macrocylic porphyrin rings
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Delocalisation pins down meaning of bond order
Reliable bond order definition provides new insights into covalency
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Anionic aluminium turns textbook knowledge on its head
First stable nucleophilic aluminium(I) compound offers new way to make aluminium–carbon bonds
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Introducing gallaarsene, the first of its kind
Molecule features rare gallium–arsenic double bond
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New AFM tip reopens hydrogen bond imaging debate
Putting rigid copper oxide on probe prevents artefacts – but what is it actually measuring?
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Longest carbon–carbon bond yet pushes chemistry to its limits
Steric strain creates bond longer than theory thought possible
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Hydrogen bonds keep soda fizzy for longest
Alcohol, sugar and salts disrupt hydrogen network, changing how quickly carbon dioxide escapes from different drinks
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Introducing regium bonds
New bond describes interactions between group 11 nanoparticles and Lewis bases
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When it comes to halogen bonds, electrostatics aren’t the σ-hole story
Researchers say charge-transfer should officially join σ-holes in halogen bond explanation
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First boron–tellurium double bond captured
Unusual molecule features shortest boron bond to one of the rarest metals on Earth
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Purple crystals boast first aluminium double bond
Aluminium analogue of an alkene completes series of double-bonded boron group elements
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Equation to end bond order contention
Comprehensive equation derives bond orders from quantum chemistry calculations
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Crystallising new concepts not once, but twice
From supramolecular synthons to weak hydrogen bonds, Gautam Desiraju’s research has impacted several areas of chemistry
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Hydrogen bonded system faces strength test
New tool can measure noncovalent interaction under non-equilibrium, near-physiological conditions
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Polar solvents promote halogen bonds over hydrogen ones
Solvent decides bonding battle winner in supramolecular systems
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Seaborg's americium dispute put to bed 60 years later
Hotly debated historical brouhaha that centred on the element’s covalency may have been solved