Issue 6, 2016
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Dalton Transactions

White phosphorus activation by a Th(iii) complex†

Alasdair Formanuik,a   Fabrizio Ortu,a   Reece Beekmeyer,b   Andrew Kerridge,c   Ralph W. Adams ORCID logo a  and  David P. Mills*a  

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a School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
E-mail: david.mills@manchester.ac.uk

b Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, UK

c Department of Chemistry, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Abstract

[Th(Cp′′)3] (Cp′′ = {C5H3(SiMe3)2-1,3}) activates P4 to give [{Th(Cp′′)3}2(μ–η1:η1-P4)] (1), which has an unprecedented cyclo-P4 binding mode. DFT studies were performed on a model of 1 to probe the bonding in this system.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5DT04528B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Nov 2015
Accepted
06 Jan 2016
First published
06 Jan 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Dalton Trans., 2016,45, 2390-2393

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White phosphorus activation by a Th(III) complex

A. Formanuik, F. Ortu, R. Beekmeyer, A. Kerridge, R. W. Adams and D. P. Mills, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 2390 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT04528B

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