Molecules with carbon–carbon double bonds are known as "olefins." Typically, the carbon atoms in these bonds, and the atoms attached to them, lie in the same geometric plane.

The microorganisms discovered by UCR scientists and their collaborators can cleave those stubborn fluorine-to-carbon bonds, they report July 17 in the journal Science Advances.

Chemists at Hokkaido University have experimentally confirmed the existence of a single-electron carbon-carbon bond for the first time (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1). Linus Pauling ...