Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Thorium-nitrogen multiple bonds provide evidence for pushing-from-below for early actinides

  • Jingzhen Du,
  • Carlos Alvarez-Lamsfus,
  • Elizabeth P. Wildman,
  • Ashley J. Wooles,
  • Laurent Maron,
  • Stephen T. Liddle

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12206-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Despite the burgeoning nature of uranium–ligand multiple bonding, analogous thorium complexes remain incredibly rare. Here the authors report evidence for a transient thorium–nitride species, which, together with data on parent imido derivatives, suggests that the pushing-from-below phenomenon may be more widespread than previously thought.