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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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Cations pairs exhibit surprising attraction
‘Complex of complexes’ containing silver and iodonium ions experience an unprecendented interaction
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Holes cause sodium nitride to behave like a metal
Clathrate’s strange metallic nature caused by electronically active cavities
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First flat tetravalent silicon stabilised by metals and aromaticity
Chemists make stable compound featuring a silicon atom that forgoes tetrahedral geometry
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Beryllole is the first alkaline earth metal antiaromatic molecule
Metallacyclopentadiene is the first beryllium compound to engage in π system chemistry
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Planar fivefold bonding with silicon and germanium at the centre
Electronegative elements key to stabilising exotic structures, simulations show
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Salt crystal grows legs to avoid slippery surface
Sodium chloride’s self-lifting crystallisation has been observed for the first time
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Hexasilabenzene
Brian Clegg discovers what a six-membered silicon ring can tell us about alien life
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Strange hexagonal form of table salt discovered
Predicted by an evolutionary algorithm, the first hexagonal sodium chloride was made on a diamond surface
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New high pressure allotrope of nitrogen solves a chemical mystery
‘Black nitrogen’ shares similarities with other elements in its group on the periodic table – answering the question of why nitrogen normally doesn’t
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New silicon–silicon bond is a rare example of a π bond without a σ bond
Discovery made in silicon analogue of bicyclobutane
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Carbon tetrahedron squeezes phosphorus into smallest possible bond angle
Phosphorus manages to stabilise an ultra-strained tetrahedrane’s banana bonds
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Metallic hydrogen reveals itself under mounting pressure
Robust data help close in on prized room temperature superconductor
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Bird droppings to help cut the crap in graphene doping papers
Dramatic illustration shows there’s little value in doping graphene electrodes to make better water splitting catalysts
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Mystery around ‘stealthy’ surfactants deepens as study raises more questions
Simple explanation for why inorganic boron clusters behave like organic surfactants doesn’t convince everyone
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Semiconductive properties see subvalent silver oxide contravene textbook rules
Extreme synthetic conditions create material with a seemingly implausible electron count
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Rare subvalent compound sits on the fence between semiconductors and intermetallics
Liquid indium solvent and sulfur-poor conditions allow scientists to create a new subchalcogenide
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Double aromaticity found in boron analogue of metallabenzene
Boron–rhenium cluster is both σ- and π-aromatic
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Transition metal complex with geometry predicted over 100 years ago raises eyebrows
A hexagonal planar complex containing rare palladium–magnesium bonds has been reported for the first time
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First isolable thorium nitride complex made
Researchers use new complex to probe covalency of actinide–ligand double bonds
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