Bond polarity, driven by differences in electronegativity, explains why some molecules dissolve in water, why others don’t, and why substances have different boiling points. Polar bonds have unequal ...

Scientists have long known that protons hop along hydrogen-bond pathways in these systems. What they couldn't pin down was ...

Organic chemists have transformed strong carbon fluorine bonds into crowded quaternary carbon centers with cobalt catalyzed Grignard chemistry. Osaka University research team develops new synthetic ...

Quantum chemists have discovered a new type of chemical bond in molecules that contain two uranium atoms. A total of ten electrons -- the equivalent of five covalent bonds -- are involved in the bonds ...

Osaka University research team develops new synthetic tool for building complex carbon frameworks by reacting strong carbon-fluorine bonds Osaka, Japan -- Making complicated organic molecules is like ...

The concept of the chemical bond has been around since the days when chemistry still was considered magic, and it continued to be a point of interest in the 17th century when chemistry was evolving ...