Actinide inverse trans influence versus cooperative pushing from below and multi-center bonding by Laura C. Motta, Jochen Autschbach

“…Abstract Actinide-ligand bonds with high multiplicities remain poorly understood. …”
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A charged diatomic triple-bonded U≡N species trapped in C82 fullerene cages by Qingyu Meng, Laura Abella, Yang-Rong Yao, Dumitru-Claudiu Sergentu, Wei Yang, Xinye Liu, Jiaxin Zhuang, Luis Echegoyen, Jochen Autschbach, Ning Chen

“…Diatomic actinide molecules are ideal models for studying rare multiple-bond motifs. …”
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Chemical design of electronic and magnetic energy scales of tetravalent praseodymium materials by Arun Ramanathan, Jensen Kaplan, Dumitru-Claudiu Sergentu, Jacob A. Branson, Mykhaylo Ozerov, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Stefan G. Minasian, Jochen Autschbach, John W. Freeland, Zhigang Jiang, Martin Mourigal, Henry S. La Pierre

“…The competition between crystal-field and spin-orbit-coupling interactions fundamentally transforms the spin-orbital magnetism of Pr4+, which departs from the J eff = 1/2 limit and resembles that of high-valent actinides. Our results show that Pr4+ ions are in a class on their own, where the hierarchy of single-ion energy scales can be tailored to explore new correlated phenomena in quantum materials.…”
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