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https://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/content/james-jim-sommers
Synthesis and characterization of inorganic materials, with special attention to zirconium and hafnium. In particular, have recently found a new structural motif in zirconium and hafnium chemistry.
It is a tetrahedron of Zr(Hf) atoms with four types of oxygen atoms: bridging hydroxo (green), peroxo (blue), aqua (red) and oxo (yellow)ligands.
I have also made a reasonably thorough investigation of the long-known but little-studied halogenide glasses of Zr and Hf.
I continue to work with peroxo derivatives of Zr, Hf perchlorate and nitrate salts. I and collaborators are using xray diffraction, SAXS, ESI-MS, Raman spectroscopy and classical physical methods.
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