Carbon and silicon share many chemical properties, yet their low-coordinate compounds behave quite differently: For example, although C=C bonds are ubiquitous, Si=C and Si=Si bonds are rare, and the ...

Trapping four silicon atoms into a short-lived, diamond-shaped complex gives surprising insights into aromaticity Ideally, cyclobutadiene should appear as a flat square, with carbon atoms on each ...

Rebecca Melen talks to Robert Grubbs, the joint winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, about how his research is being applied to many different processes. Early in my undergraduate organic ...