The renaissance of non‐aqueous uranium chemistry

ST Liddle - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Prior to the year 2000, non‐aqueous uranium chemistry mainly involved metallocene and
classical alkyl, amide, or alkoxide compounds as well as established carbene, imido, and …

Activation of dinitrogen by polynuclear metal complexes

D Singh, WR Buratto, JF Torres, LJ Murray - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Activation of dinitrogen plays an important role in daily anthropogenic life, and the processes
by which this fixation occurs have been a longstanding and significant research focus within …

Nitrogen reduction and functionalization by a multimetallic uranium nitride complex

M Falcone, L Chatelain, R Scopelliti, I Živković… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Molecular nitrogen (N2) is cheap and widely available, but its unreactive nature is a
challenge when attempting to functionalize it under mild conditions with other widely …

Actinide-uranium single-atom catalysis for electrochemical nitrogen fixation

T Chen, T Liu, B Pang, T Ding, W Zhang, X Shen, D Wu… - Science Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
Actinide-based catalysts have been regarded as promising candidates for N 2 fixation owing
to their unique 5f orbital with flexible oxidation states. Herein, we report for the first time the …

Dinitrogen coordination chemistry: on the biomimetic borderlands

BA MacKay, MD Fryzuk - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Biological nitrogen fixation by the nitrogenase enzymes has long been a touchstone for
dinitrogen chemists. 1, 2 Both the enzymatic reduction and protonation of N2 mediated by …

Towards uranium catalysts

AR Fox, SC Bart, K Meyer, CC Cummins - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
The forefront of research into the complexes of uranium reveals chemical transformations
that challenge and expand our view of this unique element. Certain ligands form multiple …

Magnetic susceptibility of uranium complexes

DR Kindra, WJ Evans - Chemical Reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Since uranium has several common paramagnetic oxidation states, ie, 5f 1 U5+, 5f 2 U4+,
and 5f 3 U3+, one of the analytical methods commonly used for characterizing uranium …

The continuing story of dinitrogen activation

MD Fryzuk, SA Johnson - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2000 - Elsevier
This review attempts to survey the recent literature concerning the coordination chemistry
and the reactivity patterns of metal–dinitrogen complexes. In order that this work may stand …

Dinitrogen cleavage by a heterometallic cluster featuring multiple uranium–rhodium bonds

X Xin, I Douair, Y Zhao, S Wang… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Reduction of dinitrogen (N2) is a major challenge for chemists. Cooperation of multiple
metal centers to break the strong N2 triple bond has been identified as a crucial step in both …

A Linear, O-Coordinated η1-CO2 Bound to Uranium

I Castro-Rodriguez, H Nakai, LN Zakharov… - Science, 2004 - science.org
The electron-rich, six-coordinate tris-aryloxide uranium (III) complex [((AdArO) 3tacn)
UIII][where (AdArOH) 3tacn= 1, 4, 7-tris (3-adamantyl-5-tert-butyl-2-hydroxybenzyl) 1, 4, 7 …