@john-seed.bsky.social collected some gorgeous magnetic data - as always! In fact the Tb(III) data suggested a well-isolated paramagnetic pseudo-doublet spin-orbit ground state which has led to some spin-off work so stay tuned!

Huge (!) congratulations to Becky and Jingzhen for some tremendous synthetic chemistry, and for the former's 1st first author publication, and to all authors who helped contribute to this work - especially @haenisch-group.bsky.social at @unimarburg.bsky.social. Please read and enjoy!

Thanks a lot for the support Dave! 😄

Thank you!

I think I’ll be using that analogy from now on. Thanks a lot - glad you like it!

Huge congratulations Dave, Nick, Gemma and team! 🎉🥳

Good luck with everything Gemma!

Thanks a lot Lisa. Glad you like it!

Thanks so much! 😃

Thanks Andrew. Absolutely! 🤝🏻

This has been a mountain of work from all authors, and impossible without the contributions of the whole team. Eternally grateful to have such talented, knowledgeable, and collaborative colleagues here in Manchester. Please read and enjoy! @uniofmanchester.bsky.social

However, in external applied magnetic fields, these S = 1/2 clusters are diamagnetic (!) as the valence delocalisation enables exalted diamagnetism, which overwhelms the intrinsic paramagnetic character, experimentally evidencing actinide open-shell superatomic character.

Solution spectroscopy highlights Robin–Day Class III 6d-orbital valence delocalisation, and variable temperature EPR confirms axial-type 6d¹ character, with the g value ordering suggesting that this is delocalised within the Th₃ core, not localised on a thorium ion.

Super cool work! Congrats all!