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ResearchFirst persistent monosubstituted carbene created
Clever structural design enables room-temperature isolation of highly reactive molecule
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ResearchMolecular archery allows chemists to see how bonds form
Scientists shoot the world’s smallest projectiles – individual molecules – and use them to study how reactions happen
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ResearchRules to distinguish between tetrel and hydrogen bonds
Quantum calculations reveal subtle but significant geometric differences
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ResearchChunky catalyst mimics enzyme to tackle tough reactions
Tricky Diels–Alder reactions or Mukaiyama aldol additions – a bulky chiral catalyst can do them all by squeezing substrates into its chiral pocket
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ResearchFirst double aromatic molecule made
Hexaselenyl benzene cation is the first stable molecule with an aromatic ring inside another aromatic ring
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ResearchAnti-icing hairs bounce water droplets
Superhydrophobic magnetic array halts ice formation on surfaces
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ResearchThermally stable Lewis superacid added to chemists’ toolboxes
Lewis superacid that’s easy to prepare and handle
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ResearchScale ranks reactivity of fluorinating reagents
System established by measuring how quickly electrophilic fluorinating reagents react with a common set of nucleophiles
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ResearchInorganic molecule mimics odd benzene isomer
Zwitterionic boron–nitrogen compound has σ bond between two π orbitals
