An important carbon property is catenation as the ability to form long carbon chains and rings.

Catenation is the linkage of atoms of the same element into longer chains.

The versatile chemistry of elemental sulfur is largely due to catenation.

Carbon has the unique characteristic among all elements to form long chains of its own atoms, a property that's called catenation.

There are three main types of topology: supercoiling, knotting and catenation.

I know the Con catenation; I was born there.

This catenation can be visualised as two interlinked rings which cannot be separated.

It contains little catenation and no supercoiling.

This property is called catenation.

See catenation.

Left catenation.

Catenation is the process by which two circular DNA strands are linked together like chain links.

Catenation occurs most readily in carbon, which forms covalent bonds with other carbon atoms.

More of a subspatial catenation."

Authors' contributions Author 1 (A.A.) carried out all the experiments except the catenation assay.

Author 2 (Y.T.) conceived of the study, participated in its design and coordination and carried out the catenation assay.

These phosphorus(I) species are rare but are stable provided that the organic substituents are large enough to prevent catenation.

Carbon is most well known for its properties of catenation, with organic chemistry essentially being the study of catenated carbon structures (otherwise known as catenae).

Varying several factors such as surface area, pore size, catenation, ligand structure, spillover, and sample purity can result different amount of hydrogen uptake in MOFs.

Catenation is concerned with the grouping of phonemes into syllables (syllabification), and the grouping of syllables through junction (or juncture), assimilation, elision and word linking.

A pan-kDNA kinetoplast, like poly-kDNA and pre-kDNA contains a lesser degree of catenation but dissimilarly contains minicircles that are supercoiled.

In contrast to the conventional kDNA network, a pro-kDNA kinetoplast contains very little catenation and its maxicircles and minicircles are relaxed as opposed to being supercoiled (Figure 3).

Fully Persistent Lists with Catenation by James R. Driscoll, Daniel D. Sleator, Robert E. Tarjan (PDF)

This inherent ability of hydrocarbons to bond to themselves is referred to as catenation, and allows hydrocarbon to form more complex molecules, such as cyclohexane,and in rarer cases, arenes such as benzene.

Catenation ability is also influenced by a range of steric and electronic factors, including the electronegativity of the element in question, the molecular orbital hybridization and the ability to form different kinds of covalent bonds.