Nonaqueous Electrochemistry of Uranium Complexes: A Guide to Structure–Reactivity Tuning

J Riedhammer, DP Halter, K Meyer - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Uranium complexes can be stabilized in a wide range of oxidation states, ranging from UII to
UVI and a very recent example of a UI complex. This review provides a comprehensive …

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 …

Photochemical synthesis of transition metal-stabilized uranium (VI) nitride complexes

X Xin, I Douair, T Rajeshkumar, Y Zhao, S Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Uranium nitrides play important roles in dinitrogen activation and functionalization and in
chemistry for nuclear fuels, but the synthesis and isolation of the highly reactive uranium (VI) …

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 …

Two‐Electron Redox Reactivity of Thorium Supported by Redox‐Active Tripodal Frameworks

FC Hsueh, D Chen, T Rajeshkumar… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The high stability of the+ IVoxidation state limits thorium redox reactivity. Here we report the
synthesis and the redox reactivity of two Th (IV) complexes supported by the arene‐tethered …

The synthesis and versatile reducing power of low-valent uranium complexes

MA Boreen, J Arnold - Dalton Transactions, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This Perspective provides a detailed overview of the chemistry of low-valent (di-and
trivalent) uranium. The reactivity of uranium (II) and uranium (III) complexes is discussed …

The role of uranium–arene bonding in H2O reduction catalysis

DP Halter, FW Heinemann, L Maron, K Meyer - Nature Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
The reactivity of uranium compounds towards small molecules typically occurs through
stoichiometric rather than catalytic processes. Examples of uranium catalysts reacting with …

A diuranium carbide cluster stabilized inside a C80 fullerene cage

X Zhang, W Li, L Feng, X Chen, A Hansen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Unsupported non-bridged uranium–carbon double bonds have long been sought after in
actinide chemistry as fundamental synthetic targets in the study of actinide-ligand multiple …

Stepwise reduction of dinitrogen by a uranium–potassium complex yielding a U (VI)/U (IV) tetranitride cluster

N Jori, L Barluzzi, I Douair, L Maron… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Multimetallic cooperativity is believed to play a key role in the cleavage of dinitrogen to
nitrides (N3–), but the mechanism remains ambiguous due to the lack of isolated …

Molecular and electronic structure of terminal and alkali metal-capped uranium (V) nitride complexes

DM King, PA Cleaves, AJ Wooles, BM Gardner… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Determining the electronic structure of actinide complexes is intrinsically challenging
because inter-electronic repulsion, crystal field, and spin–orbit coupling effects can be of …