Actinides and lanthanides, the f-block elements, are used in a wide variety of fields including telecommunications, medicine, imaging, sensors, energy, catalysis, and data storage. However, compared ...

The breadth of main group elements spanning the period table inherently lends itself to diverse chemistry, not least owing to the versatile reactivity of the s- and p-block elements. Research into ...

Chemical bonding is one of the central organizing principles of the microscopic world. It determines how atoms combine and ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds—structures ...