Lanthanides and actinides – Page 2
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Research
New type of bond is the first to defy actinide contraction trend
Bonds discovered in metallacycles are unique to the 5f elements
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Opinion
Jimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements
USAF pilots flew into mushroom clouds to bring back samples that turned out to contain new elements – one of them didn’t make it home
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Feature
Polly Arnold’s diversity of interests
Kit Chapman asks the champion of actinide chemistry and diversity in science what comes next as she starts her new role at a US national lab
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Research
Uranium-reducing electrode cleans up groundwater
Electrochemical technique could limit spread of uranium at contaminated sites
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Research
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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Opinion
The third degree on actinide covalency
The often ignored elements are attracting chemists’ attention again
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Research
Ionisation energy of promethium fills one of the last holes in periodic table
Experiment puts an end to 75-year-old mystery
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Research
First isolable thorium nitride complex made
Researchers use new complex to probe covalency of actinide–ligand double bonds
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Feature
Victor Ninov and the element that never was
20 years on, Kit Chapman investigates how a scientific scandal unfolded
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Research
Curious colours expose f-electron covalency effects
New knowledge overwrites electronic structure assumptions surrounding actinide complexes
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Research
Mystery around actinides deepens as researchers challenge study on heavy elements’ origin
Was a giant supernova rather than a neutron star collision responsible for creating the solar system’s actinides?
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Research
Violent stellar collision near early solar system created actinides
A single neutron star merger produced almost all curium and plutonium that ever existed in the solar system
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News
Does the periodic table make more sense upside down?
UK researchers argue an inverted table works better for students
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Research
Hopes raised of a ‘super-table’ to end periodic table disputes
Mathematical analysis could help answer where hydrogen or lanthanum should sit on the table
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Research
Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superconductivity
High pressure lanthanum superhydride sets a new critical temperature record, validating theoretical predictions
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Research
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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Research
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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Research
New route to +3 oxidation state of neptunium
Tetrahydrofuran steers chemists towards a low-valent neptunium precursor
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Research
New rationale for 15-element wide f block
Scientists seek to settle periodic table layout debate
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Research
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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