Chemical bonding is one of the central organizing principles of the microscopic world. It determines how atoms combine and ...

Quantum entanglement offers a unified ab initio framework for revealing chemical bonds, from Lewis structures to aromatic and ...

Valence bond theory offers a description of chemical bonding in which atomic orbitals overlap to form localized electron pairs, blending ionic and covalent contributions to yield resonance energies ...

The development of advanced methodologies in theoretical chemistry has been crucial to improve our microscopic understanding of molecular processes, not only enhancing our ability to model and predict ...

A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo have spent years testing the limits of chemical bonds. And now, after years of work, they've finally explored an idea originally proposed in 1931: a ...

The distribution of outermost shell electrons, known as valence electrons, of organic molecules was observed for the first time. As the interactions between atoms are governed by the valence electrons ...

Recently, two-dimensional (2D) boron sheets, namely borophenes, have drawn great interests of materials scientists because of their analogy to graphene. However, the understanding on how the material ...

But in experiments, chemists only found inefficient reactions. The FSU research, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, shows why: The molecule quickly moves into a less energetic ...

Beryllium is one of those self-loathing elements. Like helium or neon, an atom of beryllium should not partner with another, chemical theory says. But new research, published online May 21 in Science, ...