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Chemical Communications

Lewis acid capping of a uranium(v) nitride via a uranium(iii) azide molecular square†

Michael A. Boreen, ORCID logo ab   Guodong Rao, ORCID logo c   David G. Villarreal, ORCID logo c   Fabian A. Watt,d   R. David Britt, ORCID logo c   Stephan Hohloch ORCID logo *e  and  John Arnold ORCID logo *ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
E-mail: arnold@berkeley.edu

b Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

c Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA

d Paderborn University, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany

e Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Institute of General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Innrain 80–82, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
E-mail: stephan.hohloch@uibk.ac.at

Abstract

Reaction of (CpiPr4)2UI with NaN3 resulted in formation of tetrameric uranium(III) azide-bridged ‘molecular square’ [(CpiPr4)2U(μ-η1:η1-N3)]4 (1). Addition of B(C6F5)3 to 1 induced loss of N2 at room temperature, yielding the uranium(V) borane-capped nitrido (CpiPr4)2U(μ-N)B(C6F5)3 (2).

Graphical abstract: Lewis acid capping of a uranium(v) nitride via a uranium(iii) azide molecular square

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC01356K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
20 Feb 2020
Accepted
17 Mar 2020
First published
24 Mar 2020

Chem. Commun., 2020,56, 4535-4538

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Lewis acid capping of a uranium(V) nitride via a uranium(III) azide molecular square

M. A. Boreen, G. Rao, D. G. Villarreal, F. A. Watt, R. D. Britt, S. Hohloch and J. Arnold, Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 4535 DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01356K

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