Although the properties of pure metallic osmium, and particularly its atomic weight, are now known with certainty, the nature of its compounds is yet very little understood. Moreover, it is ...

Osmium Tetroxide (OsO4), a severe oxidizer, is highly poisonous even at low exposure levels. It must be handled with appropriate precautions. In particular, inhalation at concentrations well below ...

F Martínez-Peña and AM Pizarro*. Chem.--Eur. J. 2017, 23, 16231-16241. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701681. Potent organo-osmium compound shifts metabolism in epithelial ovarian cancer cells. JM Hearn, I ...

Professor William Griffith Professor Griffith’s chemical work was mainly centred on compounds of the six platinum metals, ruthenium, osmium, rhodium, iridium, palladium and platinum. Some of the ...

Two years have scarcely elapsed since the position of osmium in the periodic system was finally decided by the painstaking re-detetmination of its atomic weight by Prof. Seubert. Previous ...