Rare-earth metal and actinide organoimide chemistry

D Schädle, R Anwander - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The chemistry of actinide (An) and rare-earth metal (Ln and group 3) complexes featuring
multiple bonding interactions with main-group fragments has witnessed an enormous …

Carbon oxygenate transformations by actinide compounds and catalysts

PL Arnold, ZR Turner - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Carbon oxygenates represent an increasingly important class of feedstock in the
development of a sustainable chemical economy. Their catalytic transformation into value …

A terminal neptunium (V)–mono (oxo) complex

MS Dutkiewicz, CAP Goodwin, M Perfetti, AJ Gaunt… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Neptunium was the first actinide element to be artificially synthesized, yet, compared with its
more famous neighbours uranium and plutonium, is less conspicuously studied. Most …

Covalency in americium (III) hexachloride

JN Cross, J Su, ER Batista, SK Cary… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Developing a better understanding of covalency (or orbital mixing) is of fundamental
importance. Covalency occupies a central role in directing chemical and physical properties …

Divergent stabilities of tetravalent cerium, uranium, and neptunium imidophosphorane complexes

KS Otte, JE Niklas, CM Studvick… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The study of the redox chemistry of mid‐actinides (U− Pu) has historically relied on cerium
as a model, due to the accessibility of trivalent and tetravalent oxidation states for these ions …

Organometallic neptunium chemistry

PL Arnold, MS Dutkiewicz, O Walter - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Fifty years have passed since the foundation of organometallic neptunium chemistry, and yet
only a handful of complexes have been reported, and even fewer have been fully …

Carbene complexes of plutonium: structure, bonding, and divergent reactivity to lanthanide analogs

J Murillo, JA Seed, AJ Wooles, MS Oakley… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Organoplutonium chemistry was established in 1965, yet structurally authenticated
plutonium–carbon bonds remain rare being limited to π-bonded carbocycle and σ-bonded …

Thorium–phosphorus triamidoamine complexes containing Th–P single-and multiple-bond interactions

EP Wildman, G Balázs, AJ Wooles, M Scheer… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Despite the burgeoning field of uranium-ligand multiple bonds, analogous complexes
involving other actinides remain scarce. For thorium, under ambient conditions only a few …

A tetrahedral neptunium (V) complex

JE Niklas, KS Otte, CM Studvick, S Roy Chowdhury… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Neptunium is an actinide element sourced from anthropogenic production, and, unlike
naturally abundant uranium, its coordination chemistry is not well developed in all …

The crystal and coordination chemistry of neptunium in all its oxidation states: An expanded structural hierarchy of neptunium compounds

SE Gilson, PC Burns - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Structures of 388 neptunium-bearing crystal structures are sorted into an expanded
structural hierarchy and examined. The majority of structures contain Np (V)(149), Np …