An article by the PCMT team featured on the cover of the Journal of the American Chemical Society

PCMT Vie du labo Parutions

The PCMT team, in collaboration with Richard E. Wilson’s group (Argonne National Laboratory, USA), has published a cover article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society

Neptunium(VI) Bends, Plutonium Reduces to Pu(V)!

Phenanthroline forces neptunyl(VI) into a rare bent geometry, creating the most distorted neptunyl structure ever reported, while plutonium resists deformation and undergoes reduction to Pu(V). This work illuminates how ligand crowding, electronic structure, and redox behavior interweave to reshape the fundamental chemistry of actinyl ions beyond uranium.

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