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Down toward the bottom of the periodic table lie the lanthanides. These f-block elements form complexes in which the metals usually exist in the +3 or, more recently, +2 oxidation states. The only lanthanide known to form molecular Ln4+ compounds was cerium. But researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), led by Marinella Mazzanti, now show that terbium can also form compounds with a +4 oxidation state (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b05337). Perhaps, they say, other lanthanides can too. To make the Tb4+ complex, the team first synthesized a complex containing electron-rich tetrakis(tert-butoxy) siloxide ligands and two metal centers, potassium and terbium(
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