The discovery of a stable single-electron covalent bond between two carbon atoms validates a century-old theory.

For the first time, scientists visualized how electrons behave during a chemical reaction, which could help reduce unwanted byproducts in future chemistry.

A stable compound that contains a one-electron C–C bond had been elusive. Shimajiri says the key to observing the single-electron carbon bond was carefully designing a molecule that would ...

The oxidative prowess of cytochrome P450s has been suggested to stem from the electron-donating axial ligand. Now, a selenocysteine-ligated P450 compound I has been trapped and characterized ...

For more than a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration ...