In the last few years, considerable progress has been made in the synthesis and
characterization of complexes containing actinide–ligand multiple bonds, especially in …

Carbide complexes remain a rare class of molecules. Their paucity does not reflect
exceptional instability but is rather due to the generally narrow scope of synthetic …

A combination of high-level ab initio calculations and anion photoelectron detachment (PD)
measurements is reported for the UC, UC–, and UC+ molecules. To better compare the …

Abstract Treatment of [Ph3EMe][I] with [Na {N (SiMe3) 2}] affords the ylides [Ph3E= CH2](E=
As, 1As; P, 1P). For 1As this overcomes prior difficulties in the synthesis of this classical …

Unprecedented silyl‐phosphino‐carbene complexes of uranium (IV) are presented, where
before all covalent actinide–carbon double bonds were stabilised by phosphorus (V) …

An intriguingly high abundance of both ThC13+ and UC13+ cluster cations was observed in
a previous mass spectrometry experiment; however, the structural identification of these …

There is long-standing interest in nonaqueous uranium chemistry because of fundamental
questions about uranium's variable chemical bonding and the similarities of this pseudo …

Reactions of laser-ablated U atoms with N2 molecules upon codeposition in excess argon
or neon at 4 K gave intense NUN and weak UN absorptions. Annealing produced …

The results of ab initio correlated molecular orbital theory electronic structure calculations for
low-lying electronic states are presented for UH and UH–and compared to photoelectron …

The electronic structure and various molecular properties of the actinide (An) dicarbides
ThC2 and UC2 were investigated by relativistic quantum chemical calculations. We probe …