Abstract
Nuclear Chemistry Life is short for the heaviest elements. They emerge from high-energy nuclear collisions with scant time for detection before they break up into lighter atoms. Even et al. report that even a few seconds is long enough for carbon to bond to the 106th element, seaborgium (see the Perspective by Loveland). The authors used a custom apparatus to direct the freshly made atoms out of the hot collision environment and through a stream of carbon monoxide and helium. They compared the detected products with theoretical modeling results and conclude that hexacarbonyl Sg(CO)6 was the most likely structural formula. Science , this issue p. [1491][1]; see also p. [1451][2] [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1255720 [2]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1259349
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