All Inorganic chemistry articles – Page 4
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PodcastIonic liquids
Liquid salts, ionic melts, fused salts, or ionic glasses – call them what you like, these much-hyped solvents show great promise
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Research
New ordering of elements could help find materials with promising properties
Universal sequence of elements index uses atomic radii and electronegativity to make predictions about simple compounds
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Trinuclear complex is a rare example of bottled double aromaticity
First report of a system containing a ruthenium atom that takes part in two different types of aromaticity simultaneously
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Planar fivefold bonding with silicon and germanium at the centre
Electronegative elements key to stabilising exotic structures, simulations show
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Opinion
The Nobel prize that got binned
Ferrocene is a classic example of a discovery that was dismissed as a failed experiment
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Research
Baird’s rule of aromaticity extended to all-metal systems
Aromaticity concept can help scientists understand the properties of metal clusters
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Salt crystal grows legs to avoid slippery surface
Sodium chloride’s self-lifting crystallisation has been observed for the first time
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Largest hollow cage molecule yet made from 1000 atoms
Giant polyoxymetalate cluster contains 240 molybdenum, 740 oxygen and 20 sulfur atoms
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Opinion
Marguerite Perey and the last element in nature
Kit Chapman tells the story of the chemist who discovered francium, but was almost denied the credit
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Research
New bond discovered among spodium elements zinc, cadmium and mercury
Group 12 joins the σ-hole interaction family with spodium bonds
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Feature
Metalloenzyme mastery
There are natural metalloenzymes that make difficult chemistry look easy. James Mitchell Crow talks to the bioinorganic chemists figuring out how to copy them
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Research
Strange hexagonal form of table salt discovered
Predicted by an evolutionary algorithm, the first hexagonal sodium chloride was made on a diamond surface
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Research
New high pressure allotrope of nitrogen solves a chemical mystery
‘Black nitrogen’ shares similarities with other elements in its group on the periodic table – answering the question of why nitrogen normally doesn’t
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Research
New silicon–silicon bond is a rare example of a π bond without a σ bond
Discovery made in silicon analogue of bicyclobutane
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Shock treatment makes nanocatalysts from metals that are ‘impossible’ to mix
New technique allows nanoparticles to be produced from almost any combination of metals
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Pushing praseodymium past its oxidation limits
Researchers isolate the first molecular species bearing praseodymium(IV), which could find applications in catalysis and new materials
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Carbon tetrahedron squeezes phosphorus into smallest possible bond angle
Phosphorus manages to stabilise an ultra-strained tetrahedrane’s banana bonds
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Serendipitous experiment on xenon complex reveals insights into rare gas interaction
Experiment and theory combo gives benchmark for predicting non-covalent complexes
