Frontier molecular orbital engineering provides a powerful means to control chemical reactivity and unlock new catalytic functions in main-group compounds. However, prevailing approaches largely rely ...

Methisazone is one of the most historically intriguing molecules in antiviral chemistry, an isatin-derived thiosemicarbazone ...

Recently, the group of professor ZHANG Yongsheng from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) identified the orbital ...

Electron orbitals show where and how electrons move around atomic nuclei and molecules. In modern chemistry and physics, they have proven to be a useful model for quantum mechanical description and ...

Atomic orbitals exist, sort of. The lobes, spheres, and donuts familiar to many chemists are like a map of where you might find electrons around a nucleus. The geometric patterns and motifs that atoms ...