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ResearchAlkaline earth carbonyls break the rules
Complexes of Ca, Sr and Ba adopt a transition metal-like 18-electron configuration, rather than the octet more usually found in main group compounds
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Terbium complex completes heavy lanthanide metallocenium family
Introducing terbocenium, a new heavy lanthanide sandwich complex that will add to molecular scale data storage studies
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Actinide gap plugged by giant neptunium clusters
Complexes could help inform researchers working on nuclear fuel reprocessing and radioactive waste management
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First arsenic–germanium double bond made
Scientists use push–pull substitution to synthesise heavy imine
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Cuboctahedral copper cluster promotes main group coordination to new high
First examples of compounds in which a sulfide, chloride or bromide ion holds so large a coordination number
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AI teaches itself to identify materials – and predict new ones too
Neural network trained up on 50,000 crystal structures shows promise rapidly navigating chemical element combinations
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Noble gas’s days of fixed atomic weight argon
Chemistry’s standardisation body introduces atomic weight interval for argon and updates weights of another 13 elements
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New route to +3 oxidation state of neptunium
Tetrahydrofuran steers chemists towards a low-valent neptunium precursor
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Tin–cobalt compound used as oligomerisation catalyst
First example of a four-coordinate tin radical made by photolysis of a metal–metal bond
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Podcast
Indium tin oxide, ITO
Swipe, tap, pinch, poke and prod – Neil Withers gets hands on with touchscreen material indium tin oxide
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First actinide–metal complexes with dative bonds
5f and 6d orbitals in low-valent actinides exhibit unprecedented charge transfer in actinide–metal complexes
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Copper–arene complex tamed by silylene
Ligand selection unleashes first monomeric [Cu(η6-C6H6)]+ complex
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Unlimited combinations possible for new range of atom thick materials
Molten salts allow synthesis of 35 unknown 2D transition metal chalcogenides with many more possible
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73 new exotic nuclei discovered at Japanese institute
Hunt for remaining 4000 predicted nuclides goes on but new technology is needed to find them all
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Anionic aluminium turns textbook knowledge on its head
First stable nucleophilic aluminium(I) compound offers new way to make aluminium–carbon bonds
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Hundreds of helium compounds could be hiding in Earth’s mantle
Although it doesn’t form any bonds, the noble gas can form compounds with salts at high pressure
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Two atom reaction smallest chemistry experiment ever performed
Exquisite manipulation of a single sodium and caesium atom could herald start of an era of total control over chemistry
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2D gallium stripped from molten metal
Gallenene is the first atomically thin material made by exfoliating a liquid metal
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Ice cubes melt to make single atom metals
Atomically dispersed metals made by ultra-slow reagent
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