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Isolation of Elusive HAsAsH in a Crystalline Diuranium(IV) Complex.


ABSTRACT: The HAsAsH molecule has hitherto only been proposed tentatively as a short-lived species generated in electrochemical or microwave-plasma experiments. After two centuries of inconclusive or disproven claims of HAsAsH formation in the condensed phase, we report the isolation and structural authentication of HAsAsH in the diuranium(IV) complex [{U(TrenTIPS)}2(?-?2:?2-As2H2)] (3, TrenTIPS=N(CH2CH2NSiPri3)3; Pri=CH(CH3)2). Complex 3 was prepared by deprotonation and oxidative homocoupling of an arsenide precursor. Characterization and computational data are consistent with back-bonding-type interactions from uranium to the HAsAsH ?*-orbital. This experimentally confirms the theoretically predicted excellent ?-acceptor character of HAsAsH, and is tantamount to full reduction to the diarsane-1,2-diide form.

SUBMITTER: Gardner BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4955221 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Isolation of Elusive HAsAsH in a Crystalline Diuranium(IV) Complex.

Gardner Benedict M BM   Balázs Gábor G   Scheer Manfred M   Wooles Ashley J AJ   Tuna Floriana F   McInnes Eric J L EJ   McMaster Jonathan J   Lewis William W   Blake Alexander J AJ   Liddle Stephen T ST  

Angewandte Chemie (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20151028 50


The HAsAsH molecule has hitherto only been proposed tentatively as a short-lived species generated in electrochemical or microwave-plasma experiments. After two centuries of inconclusive or disproven claims of HAsAsH formation in the condensed phase, we report the isolation and structural authentication of HAsAsH in the diuranium(IV) complex [{U(Tren<sup>TIPS</sup>)}<sub>2</sub>(μ-η<sup>2</sup>:η<sup>2</sup>-As<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>)] (<b>3</b>, Tren<sup>TIPS</sup>=N(CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</s  ...[more]

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