Heteroleptic actinocenes: a thorium(<scp>iv</scp>)–cyclobutadienyl–cyclooctatetraenyl–di-potassium-cyclooctatetraenyl complex
Josef T. Boronski, Ashley J. Wooles, Stephen T. Liddle
Abstract
-cyclooctatetraenyl interaction, which calculations suggest is composed of σ- and π-symmetry donations from in-plane in- and out-of-phase C[double bond, length as m-dash]C 2p-orbital combinations to vacant thorium 6d orbitals. The characterisation data are consistent with this being a metal-alkene-type interaction that is integral to the bent structure and stability of this complex.
Topics & Concepts
ThoriumPotassiumChemistryCombinatorial chemistryOrganic chemistryMaterials scienceMetallurgyUraniumOrganometallic Complex Synthesis and CatalysisMagnetism in coordination complexesLanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes