New Twists and Turns for Actinide Chemistry: Organometallic Infinite Coordination Polymers of Thorium Diazide

Marisa J Monreal; Lani A Seaman; George S Goff; Ryszard Michalczyk; David E Morris; Brian L Scott; Jaqueline L Kiplinger

doi:10.1002/anie.201510851

New Twists and Turns for Actinide Chemistry: Organometallic Infinite Coordination Polymers of Thorium Diazide

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2016 Mar 7;55(11):3631-6. doi: 10.1002/anie.201510851. Epub 2016 Feb 10.

Authors

Marisa J Monreal¹, Lani A Seaman¹, George S Goff¹, Ryszard Michalczyk¹, David E Morris¹, Brian L Scott¹, Jaqueline L Kiplinger²

Affiliations

¹ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Stop J-514, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA.
² Los Alamos National Laboratory, Stop J-514, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA. kiplinger@lanl.gov.

PMID: 26865502
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201510851

Abstract

Two organometallic 1D infinite coordination polymers and two organometallic monometallic complexes of thorium diazide have been synthesized and characterized. Steric control of these self-assembled arrays, which are dense in thorium and nitrogen, has also been demonstrated: infinite chains can be circumvented by using steric bulk either at the metallocene or with a donor ligand in the wedge.

Keywords: Raman spectroscopy; azides; coordination polymers; nitrogen; thorium.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.