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Radiation-induced redox chemistry is an important consideration for practical applications such as production and storage of nuclear fuels. Furthering our fundamental understanding of radioactive elements, here, the decay kinetics of californium in the presence of common anionic compounds is studied.
As researchers explore innovative ways to make nuclear fuels more accident-tolerant, this report investigates the use of manganese ions as dopants for uranium oxide (UO2) fuels.
NMR spectroscopic data can now be fed to algorithms capable of deconvoluting the peaks in the search for its structure. Feeding the software with experimental and modelled data means that accurate fits can be produced in little time.
Organozirconium compounds are known for their non-radical C–C bond-formation reactions with electrophiles. Now, such a compound has been used as a radical precursor in an enantioselective radical cross-coupling under visible-light irradiation without the need for an extra photocatalyst.
The conversion of benzene to pyridine is achieved using blue light and oxygen, offering new opportunities to single-atom exchange strategies for skeletal editing.
