In this collection we explore the fundamental principles of chemical bonding, covering covalent, ionic, and metallic bonding, as well as molecular structure, intermolecular forces, and the role of chemical bonding in shaping the properties and behaviour of molecules.
Synthetic chemists are finally mastering the assembly of interlocked molecules held together by the mechanical bond, find James Mitchell Crow
Alongside supramolecular stalwarts, budding bonding forms are vying to be valuable, finds Andy Extance
Chemical bonds are part of the way chemists rationalise the behaviour of atoms in the conditions of the world around them. Tim Wogan looks at how they are affected when those conditions change
Explaining trends across the periodic table with the help of node-induced electron confinement
Those seemingly simple sticks belie our most complex concept
Ionic, covalent, metallic and more… but there’s debate about whether bonds are real at all
Andy Extance tells the overlooked story of crystallographer June Sutor, whose C–H⋯O bonding hypothesis was unjustly suppressed
Chemical bonds continue to fascinate chemists – and bring us together too
There’s more to bonding than covalent, ionic and the lines we draw between atoms on paper. Philip Ball takes on the expanding list of chemical connections