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Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Caryl Richards	First route to diphosphorus tetroxide Researchers from the University of Georgia, US, are the first to successfully synthesize stable diphosphorus tetroxide, the long sought-after phosphorus analogue of N 2O 4. What's more they performed the feat at room temperature.
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Chemistry World April 13, 2006 Jon Evans	Chemists Bring Alien Molecule Down to Earth Chemists have recreated an alien molecule in the laboratory by synthesising a stable version of the carbene cyclopropenylidene. Cyclopropenylidene was first detected by radio astronomers in 1985, and is now the most abundant cyclic hydrocarbon observed in interstellar space.
Chemistry World January 25, 2013 Laura Howes	Switchable catenane ready for data storage A quick experiment at the start of a PhD has resulted in a stable organic compound with four unpaired electrons. The researchers are now investigating this unusual structure for applications in batteries and data storage.
Chemistry World October 16, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Helium happily shares electrons to create dianions Helium invariably sits with its arms tightly folded and refuses to participate in chemistry, but turns out to be surprisingly generous when it is in the right environment, willing to donate not just one but two electrons to neighboring species.
Chemistry World April 26, 2011 Manisha Lalloo	Pnicogens link up as new bond is discovered German researchers have discovered a chemical oddity - a new type of intramolecular interaction between group 15 atoms, which is as strong as a hydrogen bond. These interactions could be used to build supramolecular structures.
Chemistry World March 7, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Solvated electron mystery solved Researchers have answered a riddle that has been puzzling scientists for decades: why is it that electrons in an aqueous environment appear to exist in two distinct states
Chemistry World October 22, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Carbenes catalyse metal-metal bonds in organometallics Chemists in the US have discovered a novel way to transform organometallic compounds so that new metal-metal bonds are created.
Chemistry World June 9, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Laser tracks electrons in molecules The breakthrough suggests that attosecond lasers will soon enable scientists to address problems in chemistry and biology, which until now were too complex for attosecond science.
Chemistry World May 20, 2008 Philip Ball	Core electrons' quantum jig revealed Experiments in quantum mechanics are a little like conversations: the answer you get depends on how you ask the question.
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Chemistry World October 13, 2011 Phillip Broadwith	Following Electrons' Chemical Reaction Quickstep The oscillating electronic states of molecules nearby and passing through a conical intersection can now be probed directly.
Chemistry World January 29, 2015 Santiago Alvarez	What we mean when we talk about bonds The chemical bond is still a matter of lively debate among chemists, even a century after Gilbert Lewis introduced his electron pair bonding concept.
Technology Research News January 26, 2005	The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter.
Chemistry World March 24, 2014 Tim Wogan	Carbenes beat thiols for robust monolayers Using N-heterocyclic carbenes rather than thiols to bond self-assembled monolayers to gold surfaces makes them much more robust, say researchers in Canada.
Technology Research News August 11, 2004	Single gold atoms altered The gold atom, positioned on an ultrathin film of sodium chloride, remained stable during the operation, despite the change in charge.
Chemistry World November 28, 2008 Manisha Lalloo	Elusive cation caught in a cage Chemists have isolated the elusive and highly reactive germanium dication by trapping it in a molecular cage.
Chemistry World July 1, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Liquid Cement Turns Liquid Metal When an alkali metal is dissolved in ammonia, the result is free electrons.
Chemistry World December 15, 2010 Hayley Birch	New technique probes electron properties of individual atoms A new, low voltage electron microscopy technique allows scientists to discriminate not just between atoms of different elements but between atoms of the same element in different electronic states.
Chemistry World January 10, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Nitrenium hugs stabilize positively rare complexes Everyone knows that like charges repel one another. But unusual coordination compounds bearing cationic ligands bound to cationic metals have been prepared by scientists in Israel, opening up fresh opportunities for organic transformations.
Chemistry World June 7, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Rethinking redox chemistry Metal oxide redox chemistry may be due a big re-think following new research by US scientists. It seems that it is not solely electrons that are being shunted about. In many, possibly most, cases a proton also comes along for the ride.
Chemistry World February 25, 2015 Dannielle Whittaker	Computational tool leaves electrides with nowhere to hide Scientists in Spain have proven the existence of gas-phase electride materials through a computational method with the ability to distinguish electrides from similar ionic compounds.
Chemistry World May 25, 2011 James Urquhart	Electron remains stubbornly spherical UK scientists have made the most accurate measurements to date of the shape of the electron and found - contrary to predictions that it would be aspherical - that it remains round.
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 Eric Smalley	Molecule Makes Electric Motor Researchers have built molecules that can spin on command, but finding a way to harness this molecular motion to carry out work is more difficult. A molecule that has a limited range of motion opens up new possibilities.
Chemistry World January 31, 2014 Philip Ball	X-rays set to reveal electrons' dance In principle the very intense, ultra-short x-ray pulses produced by free-electron laser sources will be capable of revealing the motions of electrons in real time as they hop between different energy states in atoms and molecules.
Chemistry World April 17, 2013 Andy Extance	Electron flashes catch organics in the act Researchers based in Canada, Germany and Japan have overcome the difficulties of collecting diffraction data on small organic molecules to make atomic-scale recordings of their movement.
Chemistry World January 3, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Key Plank of Theoretical Chemistry Rescued Theoretical chemists can breathe a sigh of relief after the publication of a study which shows that a cornerstone of their discipline seems to be intact despite earlier evidence to the contrary.
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Philip Ball	We choose to go to the muon Chemists Mohammad Goli and Shant Shahbazian posit two new light elements. They are muonium (Mu), in which an electron orbits a positively charged muon ( +), and muonic helium (He ), in which an electron orbits a 'nucleus' consisting of an alpha particle and a negative muon.
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Chemistry World March 27, 2012 Erica Wise	Unlocking the mysteries of ice The unusual properties of ice under compression are due to Coulomb repulsion between bonding and non-bonding electron pairs, say scientists from Singapore and China.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005	Light writes data in electrons Researchers developed a spin memory device that writes data as electron spins using lasers, stores the electrons in quantum dots, and reads spin information by applying a voltage to the quantum dots to generate photons.
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 Eric Smalley	Chips measure electron spin Practical quantum computers are at least a decade away, and some researchers are betting that they will never be built. But a pair of recent experiments may prove them wrong.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley	Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron.
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Technology Research News December 19, 2005	Quantum computing: qubits Quantum bits, or qubits, are the quantum equivalent of the transistors that make up today's computers. There are four established qubit candidates: ion traps, quantum dots, semiconductor impurities, and superconducting circuits.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material.
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Chemistry World October 14, 2014 James Urquhart	Good vibrations for electron microscopy The physical and chemical properties of materials will be better understood thanks to researchers who added vibrational spectroscopy to the electron microscope at a spatial resolution of just a few nanometers.
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Technology Research News February 11, 2004	Electricity teleportation devised Researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands have devised a way to teleport electricity.
Chemistry World December 23, 2008 Tom Westgate	Gallium and uranium join forces A molecule featuring the first ever uranium-gallium bond may shed light on how related carbene ligands selectively extract uranium from lanthanides
Chemistry World July 8, 2013 Philip Ball	Solvent traffic responsible for electron gridlock Electron transfer is common in biochemistry, electrochemistry and redox reactions, but isn't fully understood. New research now shows that the rate at which an electron leaves its parent atom may be at the mercy of the solvent.
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