A traditional “single bond” is actually two electrons—one from each atom. This is one electron. The fragile bond required outside-the-box thinking, with a complex molecule acting as a shell. From the ...
This is because the bonds would force the molecule into a tortured, strained 3D shape that makes it highly reactive and unstable, says study co-author Neil Garg, a chemist at the University of ...
The team from the University of California, Los Angeles, showed how it is actually possible to create compounds with a special structure and pattern of molecular bonds that was long deemed impossible.