Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
5 years ago

Picomolar Traces of Americium(III) Introduce Drastic Changes in the Structural Chemistry of Terbium(III): A Break in the “Gadolinium Break”

Picomolar Traces of Americium(III) Introduce Drastic Changes in the Structural Chemistry of Terbium(III): A Break in the “Gadolinium Break”
Georg Steinhauser, Bernhard Lendl, Christian Knoll, Peter Weinberger, Gerald Giester, Danny Müller, Martin Wilkovitsch, Jan M. Welch, Johannes Ofner
Americium acts as a “pied piper” and lures the heavy lanthanide terbium across the “gadolinium break” into forming a structure that is normally preferred by the light lanthanides only. Terbium azobis(tetrazolide) usually crystallizes as a salt-like compound. Traces of americium in the mother liquor change the structural behavior of the compound by introducing a coordinative bond between the cation and the azobis(tetrazolide) anion, as shown by G. Steinhauser et al. in their Communication (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201703971).

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201708388

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