A version of this story appeared in Volume 103, Issue 16 The problem with such a molecule, Schreiner says, is that it would be made from alternating single and double bonds between the nitrogen atoms, ...

Nitrogen finally joins the elite tier of elements like carbon that can form neutral allotropes—different structural forms of a single chemical element. Researchers from Justus Liebig University, ...

Left: Chemical structure of the cyclo[48]carbon [4]catenane. Right: Space-filling representation. Credit: Harry Anderson. Chemists have demonstrated the synthesis of a new molecular form of carbon.

A collaborative multidisciplinary project involving researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Oxford and Manchester as well as collaborators at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, has demonstrated ...