Main group chemistry – Page 2
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ResearchMetallic hydrogen and diamonds may have been made from plastics
A combination of x-ray diffraction experiments and simulations suggests that an intense laser can transform polystyrene
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ResearchMetallic snowflakes made in liquid metal solvents
Striking shape-controlled structures inspired by ice crystals
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ResearchNew technique reveals interactions inside indium nucleus
Study will help researchers understand how seemingly simple single-particle phenomena emerge from complex interactions among protons and neutrons
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ResearchPerfectly planar stable silicon clusters with six contacts predicted
Hexacoordinated systems theorised to remain stable, even with protecting ligands
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ResearchPepto-Bismol compound’s structure unveiled after 120 years
Electron microscopy triumphed over x-ray crystallography as century-old structural puzzle around bismuth subsalicylate is finally solved
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ResearchThe closest chemists have ever got to an inorganic ferrocene
Compound comprises an iron ion sandwiched between two aromatic phosphorus squares
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ResearchSemimetal study links spiral magnetism to Weyl fermions
Findings may help explain spatial modulations seen in the magnetism of other rare earth intermetallic compounds
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ResearchFirst crystal structure of bleach in its 200-year history
X-ray structure of chemistry staples hypochlorite and hypobromite recorded for the first time
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ResearchChloride ion central to first synthesis of a siladodecahedrane
Three-step synthesis creates a platonic solid out of silicon
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ResearchScientists uncover pitfalls of letting algorithms determine crystal structures
Chemists warn not to blindly trust x-ray crystallography software after finding and correcting mistakes in iodine azide structures
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ResearchMore metallomimetic chemistry from boron
One boron atom bonds like a transition metal in two different ways
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ResearchCalculations predict first quadruple bond between a transition metal and silicon
Silicon–ruthenium interaction adds to flurry of research on multiple bonds
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ResearchExotic bond takes computational chemists by surprise
New results could help to solve the dispute around the strange Na–B bond in NaBH3–
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ResearchDouble bond metathesis extended to germanium compounds
Partner swapping reaction carried out with digermene compounds, with no need for a catalyst
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ResearchCations pairs exhibit surprising attraction
‘Complex of complexes’ containing silver and iodonium ions experience an unprecendented interaction
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ResearchHoles cause sodium nitride to behave like a metal
Clathrate’s strange metallic nature caused by electronically active cavities
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ResearchFirst flat tetravalent silicon stabilised by metals and aromaticity
Chemists make stable compound featuring a silicon atom that forgoes tetrahedral geometry
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ResearchBeryllole is the first alkaline earth metal antiaromatic molecule
Metallacyclopentadiene is the first beryllium compound to engage in π system chemistry
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ResearchPlanar fivefold bonding with silicon and germanium at the centre
Electronegative elements key to stabilising exotic structures, simulations show
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ResearchSalt crystal grows legs to avoid slippery surface
Sodium chloride’s self-lifting crystallisation has been observed for the first time