Nature Communications (Jul 2018)
A diuranium carbide cluster stabilized inside a C80 fullerene cage
- Xingxing Zhang,
- Wanlu Li,
- Lai Feng,
- Xin Chen,
- Andreas Hansen,
- Stefan Grimme,
- Skye Fortier,
- Dumitru-Claudiu Sergentu,
- Thomas J. Duignan,
- Jochen Autschbach,
- Shuao Wang,
- Yaofeng Wang,
- Giorgios Velkos,
- Alexey A. Popov,
- Nabi Aghdassi,
- Steffen Duhm,
- Xiaohong Li,
- Jun Li,
- Luis Echegoyen,
- W. H. Eugen Schwarz,
- Ning Chen
Affiliations
- Xingxing Zhang
- Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University
- Wanlu Li
- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University
- Lai Feng
- Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationS (SIEMIS), College of Physics, Optoelectronics and Energy & Collaborative, Soochow University
- Xin Chen
- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University
- Andreas Hansen
- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Universität Bonn
- Stefan Grimme
- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Universität Bonn
- Skye Fortier
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso
- Dumitru-Claudiu Sergentu
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- Thomas J. Duignan
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- Jochen Autschbach
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- Shuao Wang
- School of Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences & Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu, Higher Education Institutions, Soochow University
- Yaofeng Wang
- Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University
- Giorgios Velkos
- Nanoscale Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
- Alexey A. Popov
- Nanoscale Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
- Nabi Aghdassi
- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University
- Steffen Duhm
- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University
- Xiaohong Li
- Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University
- Jun Li
- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University
- Luis Echegoyen
- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Universität Bonn
- W. H. Eugen Schwarz
- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University
- Ning Chen
- Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05210-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
While metal–carbon double bonds are common in transition metal chemistry and catalysis, unsupported uranium–carbon double bonds remain highly challenging to prepare. Here, the authors stabilize and characterize a U=C=U cluster containing unusually short, unsupported double bonds inside an I h(7)-C80 fullerene cage.
