Cover Feature: Technetium and Rhenium Auto-reduction, Polymerization and Lability towards Group VII Polyoxometalate Chemistry (Chem. Eur. J. 21/2025)

Abstract

The hand you are dealt: Reduced Tc^V/Re^VI octahedra and fully oxidized Tc^VII/Re^VII tetrahedra self-assemble, mix and match, and exchange to produce the first group VII technetium/rhenium mixed metal polyoxometalate and the first rigorous characterization of a rhenium autoreduction product. Based on both the lability of the polynuclear clusters and trends in reduction, the expansion of nascent group VII polyoxometalates is promising. More information can be found in the Research Article by M. Nyman and co-workers (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202404144).