Exceptional uranium(VI)-nitride triple bond covalency from 15N nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and quantum chemical analysis

Jingzhen Du; John A. Seed; Victoria E. J. Berryman; Nikolas Kaltsoyannis; Ralph W. Adams; Daniel Lee; Stephen T. Liddle

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25863-2

Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Exceptional uranium(VI)-nitride triple bond covalency from 15N nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and quantum chemical analysis

Jingzhen Du,
John A. Seed,
Victoria E. J. Berryman,
Nikolas Kaltsoyannis,
Ralph W. Adams,
Daniel Lee,
Stephen T. Liddle

Affiliations

Jingzhen Du: Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester
John A. Seed: Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester
Victoria E. J. Berryman: Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester
Nikolas Kaltsoyannis: Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester
Ralph W. Adams: Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester
Daniel Lee: Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester
Stephen T. Liddle: Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25863-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Determining the covalency of actinide chemical bonding is a fundamentally important challenge. Here, the authors report a 15N nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of a terminal uranium-nitride, revealing exceptional NMR properties and covalency that redefine 15N NMR parameter space and actinide chemical bonding.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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