A research team involving University of Iowa chemists reports a new oxidation state for a rare earth chemical element, a ...

The final piece of the jigsaw puzzle of how actinides bond with ligands through phi bonds has been identified, with its ...

During the process, they discovered something unexpected about this particular f-block element on the periodic table that ... that it has a tetravalent oxidation state (a positive charge of ...

This contradicts traditional periodic table expectations ... “But the berkelium ion is much happier in the +4 oxidation state ...