Carbon bond that uses only one electron seen for first time: ‘It will be in the textbooks’
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The fundamental discovery deepens scientists’ understanding of chemical bonding.
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Original Title: For a little more than a century, chemists have believed that strong atomic links called covalent bonds are formed when atoms share one or more electron pairs. Now, researchers have made the first observations of single-electron covalent bonds between two carbon atoms.