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ResearchTextbook structure rules formulated by Linus Pauling 90 years ago prove unreliable
Just 13% of 5000 oxides found to fulfil all five coordination geometry predictions
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Light-harvesting clusters and titanium dioxide cooperate to fix nitrogen
Atomically precise metal clusters continue to gather momentum by catalysing the production of ammonia
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Metallic hydrogen reveals itself under mounting pressure
Robust data help close in on prized room temperature superconductor
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Bird droppings to help cut the crap in graphene doping papers
Dramatic illustration shows there’s little value in doping graphene electrodes to make better water splitting catalysts
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First benzene-mimicking molecule made entirely from palladium
Palladium hexagon is a rare example of all-metal aromatic nanocluster
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Rhenium plays starring role in bond movie
Controllable energy input from transmission electron microscope captures atoms dissociating and recombining
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Mystery around ‘stealthy’ surfactants deepens as study raises more questions
Simple explanation for why inorganic boron clusters behave like organic surfactants doesn’t convince everyone
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Semiconductive properties see subvalent silver oxide contravene textbook rules
Extreme synthetic conditions create material with a seemingly implausible electron count
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Inorganic fragment library ready to help drug discoverers reach neglected regions of chemical space
A new approach to fragment-based drug design
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Rare subvalent compound sits on the fence between semiconductors and intermetallics
Liquid indium solvent and sulfur-poor conditions allow scientists to create a new subchalcogenide
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Uranium-reducing electrode cleans up groundwater
Electrochemical technique could limit spread of uranium at contaminated sites
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Intense sound fields make mercury react with water
After nearly a century, scientists can explain why a grey cloud forms when mercury and water are sonicated
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Trigold anion is first example of strange twisted aromaticity
A blue tin–gold cluster is the first to show in-plane σ-Möbius aromaticity
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Double aromaticity found in boron analogue of metallabenzene
Boron–rhenium cluster is both σ- and π-aromatic
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First stable solid pentavalent plutonium compound stumbled upon by chance
Never-before-seen form of plutonium could shake up models of how radioactive contaminants disperse in the environment
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Copernicium behaves like a volatile noble liquid, simulations suggest
Relativity plays a part in making element 112 very different to its counterparts in group 12
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Transition metal complex with geometry predicted over 100 years ago raises eyebrows
A hexagonal planar complex containing rare palladium–magnesium bonds has been reported for the first time
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Large gold nanoclusters are surprisingly stable paramagnets
An odd electron makes the magnetism
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Human biases cause problems for machines trying to learn chemistry
Including ‘unpopular’ reagents and reaction conditions into datasets could lead to better machine-learning models
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Superheavy oganesson is a semiconductor
The heaviest element known continues to defy the rules of the periodic table
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