In atomic physics and quantum chemistry, the electron configuration is the arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure (e.g., a crystal). Like other elementary particles ...

Scientists at OIST have defied a foundational rule in chemistry by creating a stable 20-electron version of ferrocene—an organometallic molecule once thought to be limited to 18 valence electrons.

THE chief interest attached to electron diffraction at the time of its discovery was the abundant support it brought to the new and exciting ideas regarding a wave mechanics of material particles ...