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ResearchPhotochemistry enables safer method for reprocessing plutonium and uranium mixtures
Method bypasses harsh redox reagents while maintaining high separation factors
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Research
Technique can characterise actinides with just a microgram of a heavy element
Use of polyoxometalates offers chance to conduct in-depth research on heavy actinides chemistry
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Research
This metal triangle seems to defy definition – is it aromatic or not?
Discussion around thorium ring’s aromaticity has chemists questioning if we should stop calling metal clusters aromatic
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Neptunium complex’s triple bond challenges actinide bonding assumptions
Elusive transuranic mono(oxo) complex isolated for the first time
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Dilanthanide complexes smash record for strongest single-molecule magnet
Complexes featuring first ever lanthanide–lanthanide bond could offer way to make powerful new permanent magnets
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Uranium’s strong covalent bond breaks periodic table predictions
Actinide’s unusual covalency could explain its ability to fix nitrogen
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Semimetal study links spiral magnetism to Weyl fermions
Findings may help explain spatial modulations seen in the magnetism of other rare earth intermetallic compounds
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Actinide aromaticity defies predictions
First σ-aromatic thorium cluster extends σ aromaticity to periodic table’s heaviest elements
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News
揭示在纳粹时期铀块模式rn nuclear forensics
US team are using radiochronometry to confirm their authenticity and origins
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Research
Actinium’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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Research
Fun 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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Feature
Reaching 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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Research
Macrocyclic 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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Lightest uranium isotope yet reveals nuclear stability secrets
Discovery offers new insight into isotopic stability seen at ‘magic numbers’
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Research
Three-centre single-electron bond caught in a cage
Fullerene cage stabilises bond never before seen in lanthanide chemistry
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Research
Four-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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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
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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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
