Katherine Bourzac is a freelance journalist in San Francisco, California. For a little more than a century, chemists have known that strong atomic links called covalent bonds are formed when atoms ...

A covalent bond is formed when two atoms share one or more pairs of electrons to achieve a stable electron configuration.

The association between phenols and cyanides, dissolved in carbon tetrachloride, has been measured. The shifts of the bonded OH group frequency have been determined for a range of cyanides, and ...

TEAR up that old textbook. A pyramid-shaped carbon molecule that contradicts one of the most basic chemistry lessons we learn at school has been studied for the first time. It contains a carbon atom ...