More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

Thanks to challenges involved in producing and safely containing the heavy element, few chemists have had the privilege of ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking ...

The transplutonium actinides are highly radioactive and rare, making them difficult to study. To examine their chemical ...

In the late 1960s, researchers found that the actinide element uranium could be sandwiched in a similar way, albeit with slightly larger slices of bread made from cyclooctatetraene (COT), which is ...

The synthetic element berkelium has been trapped between two carbon rings to create berkelocene for the first time, one of ...

The method provides unique insights into the electronic structures and bonding properties of these heavy, radioactive elements in the bottom row of the periodic table. The actinides include 14 ...

For many years, the Heavy Element Chemistry group in Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division has been dedicated to preparing organometallic compounds of the actinides, because these molecules ...