Chemical evidence of the stability of praseodymium(v) in gas-phase oxide nitrate complexes†
Bernardo
Monteiro, 
a
Nuno A. G.
Bandeira,
*b
Célia
Lourenço,
‡a
Ana F.
Lucena,
a
José M.
Carretas,
a
John K.
Gibson
c
and
Joaquim
Marçalo
*a
a
Nuno A. G.
Bandeira,
*b
Célia
Lourenço,
‡a
Ana F.
Lucena,
a
José M.
Carretas,
a
John K.
Gibson
c
and
Joaquim
Marçalo
*a
Abstract
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.
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