In atomic physics and quantum chemistry, the electron configuration is the arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure (e.g., a crystal). Like other elementary ...

Chemists at Hokkaido University have experimentally confirmed the existence of a single-electron carbon-carbon bond for the first time (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1). Linus Pauling ...

Carbon, the basic building block of life on Earth, can sustain single-electron bonds — a finding that has excited scientists. Credit: Dominick Reuter/AFP via Getty ...

And now, carbon can put one more feather in its cap—the ability to form single electron bonds. In new research, scientists have realized a century-old dream of a single electron covalent bond ...

Electron configuration; Unsaturated fat; Lewis structure in ... Suzuki, T. et al. Direct evidence for a carbon–carbon one-electron σ-bond. Nature, 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1; Cite ...