Progress in the chemistry of molecular actinide-nitride compounds

M Keener, L Maria, M Mazzanti - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The chemistry of actinide-nitrides has witnessed significant advances in the last ten years
with a large focus on uranium and a few breakthroughs with thorium. Following the early …

Multimetallic uranium nitride cubane clusters from dinitrogen cleavage

MS Batov, I Del Rosal, R Scopelliti… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Dinitrogen cleavage provides an attractive but poorly studied route to the assembly of
multimetallic nitride clusters. Here, we show that the monoelectron reduction of the …

Temperature induced single-crystal to single-crystal transformation of uranium azide complexes

K Li, T Rajeshkumar, Y Zhao, T Wang… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The monomeric and dimeric uranium azide complexes {[(CH3) 2NCH2CH2NPiPr2] 2U (N3)
2}(2) and {[(CH3) 2NCH2CH2NPiPr2] 2U (N3) 2} 2 (3) were synthesized by treating complex …

Photolysis, Thermolysis, and Reduction of a Uranium Azide Complex Supported by a Double-Layer N–P Ligand

P Wang, Y Zhao, C Zhu - Organometallics, 2022 - ACS Publications
A double-layer N–P ligand-supported uranium azide complex 2 ([N (CH2CH2NP i Pr2)
3UN3] 2) was synthesized by the reaction of a uranium precursor [N (CH2CH2NP i Pr2) …

Reactivity of a triamidoamine terminal uranium (VI)-nitride with 3d-transition metal metallocenes

J Seed, PA Cleaves, GR Hatton, DM King… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Reactions between [(TrenTIPS) UVI N](1, TrenTIPS={N (CH2CH2NSiPri3) 3} 3) and [MII
( 5-C5R5) 2](M/R= Cr/H, Mn/H, Fe/H, Ni/H) were intractable, but M/R= Co/H or Co/Me …

Multiconfigurational actinide nitrides assisted by double Möbius aromaticity

X Lin, X Lu, S Tang, W Wu, Y Mo - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding the bonding nature between actinides and main-group elements remains a
key challenge in actinide chemistry due to the involvement of f orbitals. Herein, we propose …

Synthesis, structure and redox properties of single-atom bridged diuranium complexes supported by aryloxides

FC Hsueh, L Barluzzi, T Rajeshkumar, R Scopelliti… - Dalton …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Single-atom (group 15 and group 16 anions) bridged dimetallic complexes of low oxidation
state uranium provide a convenient route to implement multielectron transfer and promote …