The elements in group 1 are known as alkali metals. They react rapidly (very fast) with water, producing an alkaline solution and hydrogen gas. The metals become more reactive as you go down the ...

Heavier main-group elements have fundamentally different electronic properties from their lighter congeners. Until the last two decades of the twentieth century, these differences were often ...

The breadth of main group elements spanning the period table inherently lends itself to diverse chemistry, not least owing to the versatile reactivity of the s- and p-block elements. Research into ...

"Our study unlocks new opportunities for the utilization of main-group elements and paves the way toward more rational design of catalysts for highly efficient selective oxidation catalysis," said ...

"If you look at the main group elements, there is no better place to start than boron," said Lai-Sheng Wang, a chemist at Brown University who discovered the first boron buckyball. Boron atoms ...

Historically, there has been a strong emphasis on the fundamental and applied organometallic chemistry of the main group elements. RSC members can join the Main Group Chemistry Group by updating their ...