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Introduction

e.g. "La2O3 is a chemical compound of lanthanum and oxygen with the formula La2O3."

with the names, molecular (when possible) or empirical formulas for extended structure), highlight sentence - what is this stuff well-known for? Are hydrates known (mainly for inorganic salts such as metal halides). Are there compounds with which yours can be confused (usually not).

properties and structure

for inorganic species, the structure may require explanation

properties, more than a restatement of the chem box info. perhaps comparison/contrast with related cmpd to highlight a principle

preparation (or industrial chemical)

one sent descriptoin of the synthesis using balanced equations

if more than one synthesis applies, then describe others

key reactions

what does the stuff do, CHEMICALLY - it reacts with what to give what under what conditions? Balanced eq's

applications

how are people making money with your compound or how is the cmpd benefiting mankind? This section is less chemical and less important

Safety considerations (optional)

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references (2) supplier(s) (optional) recall that Wiki-world likes these formats: – for a dash − for a minus sign only first work is capitalized on == level subheadings, e.g. "Other sources" not "Other Sources" space after numerical part of temperature -54.1 °C.

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Thanks to you & your students

Hi,

I just reviewed silver(II) fluoride and looked at a couple of other of your students' articles, I wanted to say thanks for doing such a nice job. AgF was my second ever contribution to Wikipedia, and I always planned to write an AgF2 article, so it's particularly nice for me to see that one appear, done so nicely! Walkerma 17:13, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stille reaction

Hey Smokefoot, I read that you were looking for Stille reaction references. These three places are excellent sources of information on organic reactions:

Good luck, ~K 02:45, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

~K, thank you very much, I just hope that the leads - and the examplary work - that you provided will nucleate a useful entry. We'll see.--Smokefoot 06:42, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Uranium trioxide

Scans of some of the papers reference to support the existence of UO3 gas (as opposed to particles is posted here: [1] I am not all that sure that they have been properly interpreted by the author of that section. You might want to look at them yourself. --DV8 2XL 14:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I should thank you really. I stated the topic after I came across an article describing yellowcakes. I had been under the impression that this had a single make-up but I learned that in fact it is a generic commercial term used to describe the first intermediary in uranium refinement regardless, and several different types exist. (Perversely of course, they are hardly ever yellow.) I then rewrote yellowcake to reflect what I had learned and put in the references.
Then I found myself staring at a large number of red-links on uranium compounds and took it upon myself to start (at least) a topic on each of them.
I am a metalurgest, but I'm weak on actinide chemistry, so this is my long way of asking if you would look through those stubs listed in the Uranium compounds category and vet them for any glaring errors I might have made. - That is if you have the time and are interested, of course. --DV8 2XL 20:15, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I see that the editor that put in the gas section that you commented out, put it back in again. --DV8 2XL 21:20, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
beats me what is going on with Nrcprm2026 and UO3, some sort of joke or strong views on poor old oxide. What in heck is a "narrow atom"? --Smokefoot 00:54, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The joke is hereWikipedia:Requests for mediation/Depleted uranium and related articles and the punch line is hereWikipedia:Requests for mediation/Depleted uranium and related articles/UO3 vapor. --DV8 2XL 01:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh I see... people with some sort of agenda. Tempting to tangle with them, but I'll defer. A correllary to NPOV is balance, and I thought that the heavy emphasis on UO3(g) seemed strangely unbalanced. --Smokefoot 04:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Frankly I don't blame you, I've served notice I won't engage there anymore myself. The other uranium compouds I mentioned above are not part of this issue, and I would still ask you to look at them if you have the time. --DV8 2XL 15:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Scorpionate ligands

Hi, about the scorpionate ligand. I noticed that you have commented on the page. I freely admit that I do not know everything about Tp and Tm chemistry. I know something about the organometallic chemistry of Tp and Tm, the organometallic compounds are important. It is very important to note that the second row transition metals are more easy to work with so a lot more organometallic chem hets done using them. About Tm and the Hill group, I freely admit that I have cited the Hill group quite oftein but there are not many people working on the Tm ligands. I think that much of what has been done with the Tm ligands (other than the formation of B-M bonds) is very close to the Tp chemistry.

my own view is that the article should focus on TpH itself (organo-B stuff), the pioneering work of Trofimenko, and simple cmpds vs. specialized stuff. But hey, it's Wikipedia and whomever goes first rules the article, at least for a while.--Smokefoot 01:37, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have chosen to use POVray pictures as I can not draw clear chemdraw diagrams of the Tm compounds, I think that the scorpionate ligand page should be rewritten to be like the fission products page where each metal is reviewed in turn. If you have plenty of student helpers then you could get each one to review a different metal and add a short section about it with Tp. (What do you think of this idea ?)

Very little has been done with Tm so there is less for the students to do there. I will add some more diagrams for the Tp section.Cadmium 20:42, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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