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Scientists discover f-block metals yield new oxygen-binding chemistry
- April 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Iron and oxygen bind together throughout the body. Most famously, iron binds dioxygen, or two oxygens paired with each other, in hemoglobin that transports oxygen through blood. But iron-oxo compounds, as they're called, are found in many other places throughout the body. For example, the highly reactive iron-oxo is used in liver enzymes that metabolize drugs.
Originally published at Phys.org