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SUBMITTER: Du J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6744569 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Du Jingzhen J Alvarez-Lamsfus Carlos C Wildman Elizabeth P EP Wooles Ashley J AJ Maron Laurent L Liddle Stephen T ST
Nature communications 20190913 1
Although the chemistry of uranium-ligand multiple bonding is burgeoning, analogous complexes involving other actinides such as thorium remain rare and there are not yet any terminal thorium nitrides outside of cryogenic matrix isolation conditions. Here, we report evidence that reduction of a thorium-azide produces a transient Th≡N triple bond, but this activates C-H bonds to produce isolable parent imido derivatives or it can be trapped in an N-heterocycle amine. Computational studies on these ...[more]