Art Gelis, Dan Koury, and Kelly Seeley (all Chemistry and Biochemistry) recently were published in JACS, the Journal of the American Chemical Society for their work, This research, in collaboration with University of Columbia, South Carolina; Northwestern University; Illinois Institute of Technology; and Alfred University, analyzes the challenges associated with the behavior of 5f electrons in soft ligand environments while demonstrating the electronic properties through a combination of characterization techniques as well as a structural model. Gelis, Koury and Seeley all are part of the radiochemistry program.
