Front Cover: Insight into the Structural Ambiguity of Actinide(IV) Oxalate Sheet Structures: A Case for Alternate Coordination Geometries (Chem. Eur. J. 47/2023)

Abstract

Old, limited data in the nuclear field is relied upon, but often requires revisiting for clarity. Like cracked glasses, flaws in old data can lead to missing information. Structural assumptions about PuIV oxalate hexahydrate have existed for decades, but only now has the structure been reported. These data have led to the identification of previously unreported coordination of water and changing oxalate positions across the isostructural AnIV series. More information can be found in the Research Article by A. K. Sockwell, A. E. Hixon and co‐workers (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202301164).