Outside Front Cover: Synthesis of Gold Hydride at High Pressure and High Temperature (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 38/2025)
Gold compressed in the presence of a hydrocarbon hydrogen source was heated with an X-ray free electron laser in a pump-probe experiment. Above 40 GPa and 2200 K, it reacts to form hexagonal gold hydride. The hydrogen is superionic in the gold lattice and diffuses freely. Gold is usually known as an unreactive metal, and its enhanced reactivity under extreme conditions points to modifications to chemistry in this regime, as explained by Mungo Frost et al. in their Research Article (e202505811). Image by Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Authors
- N. J. Hartley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6268-2436)
- Maximilian Schörner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7925-8917)
- Maximilian Schulze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7893-5920)
- Minxue Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3923-0677)
- Zuzana Konôpková
- Armin Bergermann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2849-1791)
- Torsten Laurus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2258-2123)
- Nicolas Jaisle
- C. Strohm (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6384-0259)
- Gerd Steinle‐Neumann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7455-6149)
- Yu Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5174-9546)
- Eric Edmund (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4363-7434)
- Klaus Abraham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1895-9909)
- Bernhard Massani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5817-1780)
- R. Redmer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3440-863X)
- Karen Appel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2902-2102)
- Rachel J. Husband (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7666-401X)
- S. H. Glenzer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9112-0558)
- Mungo Frost (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6879-0422)
- Elena A. Bykova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8652-024X)
- Carsten Baehtz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-511X)
- Anna Celeste (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6728-8449)
- H. Graafsma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2304-667X)
- Zena Younes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9584-2132)
- R. S. McWilliams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3730-8661)
- Michał Andrzejewski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8997-8301)
- D. B. Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3369-6898)
- Konstantin V. Glazyrin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5296-9265)
- A. F. Goncharov
Institutions
- Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
- Planetary Science Institute (US)
- Carnegie Institution for Science (US)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (DE)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (DE)
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- University of Rostock (DE)
- University of Bayreuth (DE)
- European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (DE)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Published
- 2025-07-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202516225
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00