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Chemistry World September 13, 2012 Philip Ball	Bright idea to probe bond order The order of multiple bonds can be uncovered using atomic force microscopy, according to Leo Gross of IBM Research in Zurich and his co-workers.
Chemistry World June 14, 2012 David Bradley	Tripling up on boron bonds Carbon and nitrogen are well known for their triple bonds, but making stable compounds with a triple bond between two boron atoms hadn't been achieved despite the computational possibilities. Until now.
Chemistry World June 25, 2013 Laura Howes	Van der Waals forces between atoms measured Lucas Beguin and co-workers at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Palaiseau, France, however, have developed a new way of measuring these forces.
Chemistry World September 26, 2013 Akshat Rathi	First pictures of hydrogen bonds unveiled Researchers in China report the first visualization of a hydrogen bond using atomic force microscopy.
Chemistry World December 3, 2009 Simon Hadlington	C-H Bond Activation Takes the Relaxing Route Chemists have uncovered a key factor that helps determine the reactivity of a C-H bond to oxidation.
Chemistry World January 29, 2012 Andy Extance	Calculations reveal carbon-carbon quadruple bond C 2's two carbon atoms aren't joined by a double bond as usually thought, or even a triple bond, but in fact a quadruple bond.
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Chemistry World January 27, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Cracking carbon-carbon bonds Chemists in the US have discovered a tungsten complex that can break a strong carbon-carbon bond in an aromatic ring.
Chemistry World March 31, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Giving molecules a stretch A simple way to stretch small molecules and measure the forces at play has been developed by researchers in the US.
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Chemistry World November 22, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Bonding under pressure An unusual compound of xenon and hydrogen has been made under high pressure by researchers in the US.
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Chemistry World May 21, 2010 Simon Hadlington	H-bond partner-swapping seen in the flesh The dance moves that a water molecule makes as it flips hydrogen bonds from one partner to another have been captured by US researchers.
Chemistry World September 3, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	New kind of bond hidden in all animals After 25 years of research, US chemists have identified a unique chemical bond that holds together type IV collagen dimer molecules.
Chemistry World January 20, 2010 James Urquhart	Disilicate synthesis success A compound containing a stable silicon-silicon bond between two negatively charged pentacoordinated silicon atoms - silicates - has been synthesized and isolated for the first time by Japanese researchers.
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Chemistry World February 15, 2010 Andy Extance	Reversing attraction shrinks car batteries Transforming the most important attractive force acting between molecules into a repulsive one could enable US scientists to nearly halve the size of lithium-ion batteries.
Chemistry World June 11, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Houdini Molecule Escapes Energy Trap A team of international chemists has captured and caught on camera a small, elusive molecule that has previously never been seen.
Chemistry World November 5, 2007 Ned Stafford	Joining up Nanocircuits A team of scientists have covalently bonded strings of porphyrin molecules on a gold surface -- a step forward in the quest to develop nano-electronics.
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.
Chemistry World February 28, 2012 Nina Notman	Observing Charge Distribution in Molecules The distribution of charge across a single molecule has been imaged for the first time by Swiss scientists. It is hoped that this work may eventually lead to electronic devices consisting of organic molecules.
Chemistry World February 27, 2011 Manisha Lalloo	Catalyst cleans up C-C bond formation Researchers in the US have developed an iridium catalyst that promotes carbon-carbon bond formation between methanol and allenes.
Chemistry World March 21, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Forcing a Reaction US chemists have forced molecules to react by ripping their bonds apart with ultrasound. The scientists carefully stretched one targeted bond until it snapped, guiding the molecule's subsequent reaction into pathways forbidden by conventional chemistry.
Chemistry World May 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Unusual H-bond patterns revealed in single molecule image Researchers in the US have used a scanning tunnelling microscope to produce the latest images of structure and bonding in a single molecule, by sensing the molecule's local potential energy landscape.
Chemistry World March 25, 2013 David Bradley	Hydrogen bond under the microscope Scientists in Japan have designed a scanning tunnelling microscope tip that allowed them to measure electron transfer across a single hydrogen bond.
Chemistry World January 30, 2014 Jessica Cocker	Crystal structure highlights buckycatcher's flexibility Chemists in the US have successfully isolated the first anion of a distinctive type of pincer molecule, known as a buckycatcher, and confirmed the extraordinary flexibility it has for encapsulating guest molecules.
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Chemistry World November 7, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Shortest Metal Bond Chemists in the US have made a quintuply-bonded dichromium complex with the shortest metal-metal bond ever isolated.
Chemistry World May 13, 2013 Philip Ball	The name's (quadruple) bond? The nature of C 2 is still imperfectly understood and has recently sparked extensive debate in the chemical literature. The question seems simple: how are the two atoms bonded?
Chemistry World September 6, 2013 Melissae Fellet	Unravelling stereochemistry via mass spectrometry Researchers have used mass spectrometry to determine the stereochemistry of a prototypical chiral molecule, CHBrClF.
Chemistry World September 12, 2013 Andy Extance	Sulfur difluoride dimer exposes bonding strangeness Calculations on unusual bonding in the sulfur difluoride dimer FSSF 3 have provided evidence to help explain why some compounds don't follow long-established chemical rules.
Chemistry World May 2, 2013 Jennifer Newton	Updating the textbook on intermolecular interactions A researcher in Spain has analyzed over five million intermolecular distances to propose a consistent set of van der Waals radii for the most naturally occurring elements.
Chemistry World November 27, 2013 Emma Stoye	Magnetic replicas capture pollen's sticking power The replica particles are identically shaped to the original pollen grains, which allows them to stick to surfaces like polystyrene using van der Waals forces. Converting pollen into these iron oxide replicas could be a useful way to manufacture adhesive microparticles.
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