To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to ...

One variant of the Rundle–Pimentel model is the resonance valence bond (VB) model, proposed by Coulson 14. In this model, the electronic structure of XeF 2 is described as a resonating combination of ...

"SOMETIMES IT SEEMS to me that a bond between two atoms has become so real, so tangible, so friendly, that I can almost see it. Then I awake with a little shock, for a chemical bond is not a real ...

In 1923, the year C&EN was born, Gilbert N. Lewis of the University of California, Berkeley, published a book titled “Valence and the Structure of Atoms and Molecules.” In the text, Lewis laid out the ...

Resonance in chemistry is a tool used (predominately in organic chemistry) to represent certain types of molecular structures. Resonance is a key component of valence bond theory and arises when no ...