Lanthanides and actinides – Page 2
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ResearchActinium’s radius revised to solve cancer therapy mystery
For decades, scientists have been using the wrong ionic radius for one of Earth’s rarest element
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ResearchFun with f-elements
Working with lanthanides and actinides may be challenging, but David Mills says the field is ripe for discovery
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FeatureReaching the molecular limit of magnetic memory
Clever chemistry could help computers cram even more data onto their hard drives. Rachel Brazil reports on single-molecule magnets
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ResearchMacrocyclic NHC ligands serve up trio of new actinide sandwich complexes
Delocalised, anionic macrocyclic NHCs with unusually strongly σ-donation set to expand suite of stable organometallic complexes with f block cations
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ResearchLightest uranium isotope yet reveals nuclear stability secrets
Discovery offers new insight into isotopic stability seen at ‘magic numbers’
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ResearchThree-centre single-electron bond caught in a cage
Fullerene cage stabilises bond never before seen in lanthanide chemistry
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ResearchFour-electron transfer is a first for f-element chemistry
Uranium (II) systems shown to effect reduction of azobenzene to yield a bis(imido) uranium (VI) complex
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OpinionMarguerite 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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ResearchPushing 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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ResearchNew 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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OpinionJimmy 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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FeaturePolly 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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ResearchUranium-reducing electrode cleans up groundwater
Electrochemical technique could limit spread of uranium at contaminated sites
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ResearchFirst 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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OpinionThe third degree on actinide covalency
The often ignored elements are attracting chemists’ attention again
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ResearchIonisation 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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ResearchFirst isolable thorium nitride complex made
Researchers use new complex to probe covalency of actinide–ligand double bonds
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FeatureVictor Ninov and the element that never was
20 years on, Kit Chapman investigates how a scientific scandal unfolded
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ResearchCurious colours expose f-electron covalency effects
New knowledge overwrites electronic structure assumptions surrounding actinide complexes
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ResearchMystery 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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