A new way to replace carbon with nitrogen atoms could lead to better medicines

When drugmakers want to improve on compounds they have already created, they can replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom.

Uranium forms rare triple bond with carbon in newly isolated compound

In a study published in Nature Chemistry, an international team of researchers from Germany and the U.K., including chemists ...
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Only 1% of chemical compounds have been discovered – here’s how we search for others that could change the world

The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them. Scientists believe undiscovered chemical compounds could help remove ...
Nature

Prediction and accelerated laboratory discovery of previously unknown 18-electron ABX compounds

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. Here we apply another theoretical approach followed by the laboratory examination of missing compounds. Regarding the predictive theory, we ...
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Chapter 4 – Covalent Bonds and Molecular Compounds

Chemical bonds are generally divided into two fundamentally different types: ionic and covalent. In reality, however, the bonds in most substances are neither purely ionic nor purely covalent, but lie ...
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CH105: Consumer Chemistry

There are only 118 known chemical elements but tens of millions of known chemical compounds. Compounds can be very complex combinations of atoms, but many important compounds are fairly simple. Table ...
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Heavy Fermions Spotted Forming at a One-Atom-Thick Interface

Researchers at the University of Osaka have directly observed a heavy-fermion state forming at the interface between a one-atom-thick ytterbium-copper layer and a copper substrate, opening a new route ...