EPFL scientists have identified a new property, interface flexibility, that controls how certain molecules naturally self-organize into crystalline supramolecular networks. This significant discovery ...

Carbon, with its myriad compounds, is the backbone of life and the central element of organic chemistry. The number of bonds ...

How does molecule shape change with different numbers of bonds and electron pairs? Find out by adding single, double or triple bonds and lone pairs to the central atom. Then, compare the model to real ...

Carbon even pairs with itself in an unusual form called green carbon. And now, carbon can put one more feather in its cap—the ability to form single electron bonds. In new research, scientists ...

A covalent bond is a shared pair of electrons between two non-metal ... Sodium will lose an electron and form a positive ion. Chlorine will gain an electron and form a negative ion.

H has 1 outer electron ... so a triple bond forms between them. The structure of nitrogen is N≡N, showing that it has three shared pairs of electrons.

A collaboration between TU Dortmund and the Pantazis group uncovers a new type of organic compound featuring a neutral, singly-bonded carbon atom ...