In 1923, the year C&EN was born, Gilbert N. Lewis of the University of California, Berkeley, published a book titled “Valence and the Structure of Atoms and Molecules.” In the text, Lewis laid out the ...

One of the key challenges in chemistry is to break and form bonds selectively in complex organic molecules that possess a range of different functional groups. To do this at the single-molecule level ...

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 ...

"SOMETIMES IT SEEMS to me that a bond between two atoms has become so real, so tangible, so friendly, that I can almost see it. Then I awake with a little shock, for a chemical bond is not a real ...

Halogen bonds were first proposed as an activating interaction in 2008, but this alternative type of organocatalysis was ...

In a vacuum-sealed flask on a lab bench in Germany sits an emerald-green crystal that will cause some jaws to drop. The crystal is the first stable compound containing a triple chemical bond between ...

A cornerstone rule of organic chemistry that has guided students and researchers for a century has just been shown to be ...