60 years of chemistry of the noble gases

Grandinetti, Felice

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60 years of chemistry of the noble gases

The landmark synthesis of a xenon compound in the early 1960s dispelled a long-standing myth about the reactivity of the noble gases — and opened the door to the rich chemistry of these elements, studies of which continue today.

Felice Grandinetti⁰

Felice Grandinetti
1. Felice Grandinetti is in the Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems, University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy, and at the Institute for Biological Systems, CNR, Monterotondo, Italy.
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In 1962, the chemist Neil Bartlett reported the first preparation of a xenon-containing compound in Proceedings of the Chemical Society¹. Despite being less than half a page in length, this paper soon became a milestone of science², marking the true beginning of the field of noble-gas chemistry. The findings stimulated research beyond the synthetic chemistry of these elements, casting light on chemical bonding, reactivity in different phases of matter and the geochemistry of the deep Earth.

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Nature 606, 659-661 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01534-0

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