I take issue with what you said because elements are defined by nuclei and do not require electrons. Any electrically neutral plasma, such as most of the sun, is made up of nuclei and independent electrons. Protons (Hydrogen nuclei) and electrons, and their anti equivalents, formed within seconds of the Big Bang. After the matter-antimatter annihilation left a net trace of matter, fusion continued to make Helium and a little Lithium for about 3 minutes. As the universe was rapidly cooling, there was not enough energy or pressure for 3 Helium atom fusion to get past the Beryllium-8 instability to make Carbon-12.