Introducing dibenzocyclooctatetraene into actinide chemistry: isolation of rare trivalent uranium sandwich complexes

2024/10/15 by Ernesto Castellanos, Wei Su, Selvan Demir · 1 voice
Chemistry · Materials Science · #Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics #Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes #Radioactive element chemistry and processing

paper · pdf · doi:10.1039/d4qi02102a

openalex publication_date 2024/10/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/22

Abstract

The π-expanded dibenzocyclooctatetraene ligand was employed to access an unprecedented series of actinide sandwich compounds. The trivalent uranium complexes were studied by crystallography, spectroscopy, and computations.

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