All covalent bonding articles
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ResearchStrange new bonds found hiding in plain sight in common organometallics
Collective interactions are proof that there’s more to bonds than just connecting neighbouring atoms
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Uranium’s strong covalent bond breaks periodic table predictions
Actinide’s unusual covalency could explain its ability to fix nitrogen
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Exotic 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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Opinion
When does a hydrogen bond become a covalent bond?
Ultrafast infrared spectroscopy probes the character of the short, strong bonds in HF2–
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Odd 'entropic bonds' akin to chemical ones can form between nanoparticles
Simulations finds that ’bonding’ can occur in the absence of any electronic interaction
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Opinion
The third degree on actinide covalency
The often ignored elements are attracting chemists’ attention again
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Strange bonds entirely new to chemists predicted in ammonia hydrides
High pressure compound containing bridging hydrogen cations might be found inside Neptune and Uranus
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New family of polymers can be easily recycled and even upcycled
Dynamic covalent bonds means polymers can be taken apart by acid
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Bonding rethink called for as new metavalent bond proposed
Combination of elements in the metalloid region of periodic table produces a bond with both metallic and covalent characteristics
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World record for longest carbon–carbon bond broken
Carborane bond surpasses previous longest bond after just nine months in the top spot
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Valence bond theory probes fundamental nature of hydrogen bonding
New insight reignites covalent versus electrostatics debate
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Longest carbon–carbon bond yet pushes chemistry to its limits
Steric strain creates bond longer than theory thought possible
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Seaborg's americium dispute put to bed 60 years later
Hotly debated historical brouhaha that centred on the element’s covalency may have been solved
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Do hydrogen bonds have covalent character?
Scientists wrangle over disagreement between charge transfer measurements
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Shape-shifting material flowers without a trigger
Programmable hydrogel could be used to make medical devices that change shape over time
