Volume 54, Issue 4 pp. 1080-1081
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The Formal Oxidation States of Iridium Now Run from −III to +IX

Prof. Dr. Pekka Pyykkö

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Prof. Dr. Pekka Pyykkö

Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55 (A.I. Virtasen aukio 1), FIN-00014 Helsinki (Finland)

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Dr. Wen-Hua Xu

Dr. Wen-Hua Xu

Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55 (A.I. Virtasen aukio 1), FIN-00014 Helsinki (Finland)

Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry & Materials Science, Northwest University, 710127 Xi'an (China)

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First published: 16 December 2014
Citations: 29

We thank Prof. Dage Sundholm for organizing the support from The Academy of Finland (Project 275845) for W.-H.X. at Helsinki and the Northwest University, Xi'an for a leave of absence.

Graphical Abstract

Rarer than a new element: Recently Wang et al. produced the [(Ir+IX)O4]+ ion by a pulsed laser vaporization/thermal expansion method and studied it by IR photodissociation spectroscopy. The oxidation state of +IX had been unknown previously. The picture shows the mass spectra for the argon-tagged iridium oxide species.

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