{"id":208603,"date":"2025-03-13T13:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-discover-new-heavy-metal-molecule-berkelocene"},"modified":"2025-03-13T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:02:35","slug":"scientists-discover-new-heavy-metal-molecule-berkelocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-discover-new-heavy-metal-molecule-berkelocene","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover New Heavy-Metal Molecule \u2018Berkelocene\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-new-heavy-metal-molecule-berkelocene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by the Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered \u201cberkelocene,\u201d the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium.<\/p>\n<p>Organometallic molecules, which consist of a metal ion surrounded by a carbon-based framework, are relatively common for early actinide elements like uranium (atomic number 92) but are scarcely known for later actinides like berkelium (atomic number 97).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time that evidence for the formation of a chemical bond between berkelium and carbon has been obtained. The discovery provides new understanding of how berkelium and other actinides behave relative to their peers in the periodic table,\u201d said Stefan Minasian, a scientist in Berkeley Lab\u2019s Chemical Sciences Division and one of four co-corresponding authors of a new study published in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by the Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered \u201cberkelocene,\u201d the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. Organometallic molecules, which consist of a metal ion surrounded by a carbon-based framework, are relatively common for early actinide elements like uranium (atomic number 92) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}