During chemical reactions, atoms in the reacting substances break their bonds and re-arrange, forming different chemical ...
Chemistry textbooks explain how reactions start and end, but they rarely show what happens ...
Valence electrons, located in the outermost shell of an atom, play an important role in driving chemical reactions and forming bonds with other atoms. But imaging these particles as they perform this ...
The first example of a stable, doubly oxidized carbene has been made by chemists in pursuit of octet-rule-defying molecules. Most carbon atoms possess 8 valence electrons, which is why they are said ...