Chemists have achieved a new feat in the realm of chemical design and synthesis: They've helped create the first example of a synthetic molecule, with an asymmetric oxygen atom as its centerpiece, ...

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In a groundbreaking achievement, physicists have successfully peered inside the nucleus of a molecule using electrons as a ...

A team of chemists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has succeeded in pulling an oxygen atom from a molecule and replacing it with a nitrogen atom. In their study, published in ...

Several compounds do not exhibit linear molecular geometry due to the presence of lone pairs of electrons on the central atom or other structural factors. Here are some examples: ...

From left: UChicago chemists Mark Levin, Jisoo Woo, and Tyler Pearson discuss techniques to swap nitrogen atoms in molecules—a change often made by drug discovery chemists. Credit: Julia Driscoll For ...

According to VSEPR theory, an AX3E molecule has a tetrahedral electronic geometry. This means the four electron pairs (three bonding pairs and one lone pair) are arranged in a tetrahedral shape around ...

The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s ...

A view inside the trapped-ion quantum computer that carried out a first-of-its-kind simulation of molecular chemistry. A single atom has performed the first full quantum simulations of how certain ...