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Nat Commun. 2016 Dec 20;7:13773. doi: 10.1038/ncomms13773.

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

Nature communications

David M King, Peter A Cleaves, Ashley J Wooles, Benedict M Gardner, Nicholas F Chilton, Floriana Tuna, William Lewis, Eric J L McInnes, Stephen T Liddle

Affiliations

  1. School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
  2. School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
  3. School of Chemistry and Photon Science Institute, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.

PMID: 27996007 PMCID: PMC5187438 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13773

Abstract

Determining the electronic structure of actinide complexes is intrinsically challenging because inter-electronic repulsion, crystal field, and spin-orbit coupling effects can be of similar magnitude. Moreover, such efforts have been hampered by the lack of structurally analogous families of complexes to study. Here we report an improved method to U≡N triple bonds, and assemble a family of uranium(V) nitrides. Along with an isoelectronic oxo, we quantify the electronic structure of this 5f

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