The list of molecules of the year is out now at C&E News (but you have to have an account…
The topic of dicarbon, C2, has been discussed here for a few years now. It undoubtedly would be a gas! This aspect…
What's a Journal For? This debate has been raging ever since preprint servers were introduced as far back as 1991!…
Sometimes you come across a reaction which is so simple in concept that you wonder why it took so long…
The term bispericyclic reaction was famously coined by Caramella et al in 2002 to describe the unusual features of the…
In previously asking what the largest angle subtended at four-coordinate carbon might be, I noted that as the angle increases…
Four-coordinate carbon normally adopts a tetrahedral shape, where the four angles at the carbon are all 109.47°. But how large…
The recently reported synthesis of octafluorocubane established a sublimation point as 168.1–177.1°C (a melting point was not observed). In contrast,…
Derek Lowe reports the story that the recently synthesized octafluorocubane can absorb one electron to form a radical anion -…
A previous post was triggered by Peter alerting me that interactive electronic supporting information (IESI) we had submitted to a…