Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have synthesized unique scandium polynitrides under extreme conditions, with exotic chemistry and potential applications as high-energy-density materials.

Catalysts with a metal-nitrogen bond can transfer nitrogen to organic molecules. In this process short-lived molecular species are formed, whose properties critically determine the course of the ...

The nitrogen cycle is a critical component of Earth's ecosystem, playing an essential role in sustaining life. However, human activity has significantly disrupted the natural balance of the nitrogen ...

The arrangement of nitrogen atoms in the hexazine anion is similar to that of carbon atoms in benzene, an aromatic compound that is ubiquitous in nature. Although the term "aromatic" originally ...

Researchers have produced two surprising compounds of nitrogen and the rare earth metal yttrium under very high pressure. The new polynitrides contain ring- and spiral-shaped crystal structures of ...

A version of this story appeared in Volume 103, Issue 16 The problem with such a molecule, Schreiner says, is that it would be made from alternating single and double bonds between the nitrogen atoms, ...

When synthesizing new drugs for pharmaceutical purposes, medicinal chemists will experience success or failure depending on differences as small as a single atom. The Levin Lab, an organic chemistry ...