Chemical evidence of the stability of praseodymium(v) in gas-phase oxide nitrate complexes.
Bernardo MonteiroNuno A G BandeiraCélia LourençoAna F LucenaJosé M CarretasJohn K GibsonJoaquim MarçaloPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2019)
The diverse reactivity of [LnO2(NO3)2]- complexes with water in the gas phase, for Ln = Ce, Pr and Nd, examined in a quadrupole ion trap and complemented by ab initio computations, illuminates the chemical stability of Pr in the unusual +5 oxidation state.