The importance of questioning scientific assumptions: Some lessons from f element chemistry
The importance of questioning scientific assumptions: Some lessons from f element chemistry
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DOI：
10.1021/ic062011k
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发表时间：
2007-04-30
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Evans, William J.
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作者：
Evans, William J.
作为科学家，我们知道我们应该不断质疑我们的研究所基于的假设。我们也知道我们做得不够多。这里描述的元素化学的最新结果应该提醒我们，不要把任何化学领域的传统边界视为理所当然，包括像氧化还原化学和键长概括这样基本的主题。在f元素领域进行还原化学的新方法，以及具有非常规键距和反应性的“长键有机金属”的合成，证明了几十年来被认为是正确的这一领域的“规则”是如何被推翻的。使这些进步成为可能的合成化学在元素化学中产生了额外的意想不到的机会，这里也有描述。总的来说，这些结果应该激励所有领域的研究人员挑战他们的假设。
As scientists, we know that we should constantly question the assumptions upon which our research is based. We also know that we do not do this often enough. The recent results in f element chemistry described here should serve to remind us not to take the traditional boundaries of any area of chemistry for granted including topics as fundamental as redox chemistry and bond-length generalizations. New ways of doing reductive chemistry in the f element area as well as the synthesis of "long bond organometallics" that have unconventional bond distances and reactivity demonstrate how the "rules" in this area, thought to be true for decades, have been recently overturned. The synthetic chemistry that made these advances possible has generated additional unexpected opportunities in f element chemistry that are also described here. Overall, these results should stimulate researchers in all areas to challenge their assumptions.