All the lanthanides do it and even uranium does oxidation state +2

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014 Apr 1;53(14):3550-1. doi: 10.1002/anie.201311325. Epub 2014 Mar 11.

Author

Gerd Meyer¹

Affiliation

¹ Department für Chemie, Universität zu Köln, Greinstrasse 6, 50939 Köln (Germany) http://www.gerdmeyer.de; Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 (USA). gerd.meyer@uni-koeln.de, ghmeyer@iastate.edu.

PMID: 24616202
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201311325

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Keywords: lanthanides; oxidation state +2; reductive chemistry; uranium.