What is the nature of the uranium( <scp>iii</scp> )–arene bond?
Sabyasachi Roy Chowdhury, Conrad A. P. Goodwin, Bess Vlaisavljevich
Abstract
= 1 or 2), and hence metal oxidation state, of such a species cannot be deduced from structural features such as arene distortion alone. We show that arene geometry strongly depends on the spin-state of the complex, but that in both spin-states the complex is best described as U(iii) with an arene-centred radical.
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