1. Molecular Thorium Trihydrido Clusters Stabilized by Cyclopentadienyl Ligands.
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Chen, Runhai, Qin, Guorui, Li, Shihui, Edwards, Alison J., Piltz, Ross O., Del Rosal, Iker, Maron, Laurent, Cui, Dongmei, and Cheng, Jianhua
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THORIUM ,LIGANDS (Chemistry) ,METAL clusters ,HYDRIDES ,NUCLEAR magnetic resonance spectroscopy ,NEUTRON diffraction ,THORIUM isotopes ,MOLECULAR clusters - Abstract
Hydrogenolysis of alkyl‐substituted cyclopentadienyl (CpR) ligated thorium tribenzyl complexes [(CpR)Th(p‐CH2‐C6H4‐Me)3] (1–6) afforded the first examples of molecular thorium trihydrido complexes [(CpR)Th(μ‐H)3]n (CpR=C5H2(tBu)3 or C5H2(SiMe3)3, n=5; C5Me4SiMe3, n=6; C5Me5, n=7; C5Me4H, n=8; 7–10 and 12) and [(Cp#)12Th13H40] (Cp#=C5H4SiMe3; 13). The nuclearity of the metal hydride clusters depends on the steric profile of the cyclopentadienyl ligands. The hydrogenolysis intermediate, tetra‐nuclear octahydrido thorium dibenzylidene complex [(Cpttt)Th(μ‐H)2]4(μ‐p‐CH‐C6H4‐Me)2 (Cpttt=C5H2(tBu)3) (11) was also isolated. All of the complexes were characterized by NMR spectroscopy and single‐crystal X‐ray analysis. Hydride positions in [(CpMe4)Th(μ‐H)3]8 (CpMe4=C5Me4H) were further precisely confirmed by single‐crystal neutron diffraction. DFT calculations strengthen the experimental assignment of the hydride positions in the complexes 7 to 12. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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