Issue 17, 2019

Dioxygen reacts with metal–carbon bonds in thorium dialkyls to produce bis(alkoxides)

Abstract

Exposure of bis-amidinate and -guanidinate supported thorium dialkyl complexes to dioxygen results in facile oxygen atom insertion and formation of the corresponding thorium bis(alkoxide) species. Preliminary mechanistic studies suggest a radical propagation mechanism is operative. All new complexes were fully characterized by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, IR, EA and X-ray crystallography.

Graphical abstract: Dioxygen reacts with metal–carbon bonds in thorium dialkyls to produce bis(alkoxides)

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 Feb 2019
Accepted
26 Mar 2019
First published
27 Mar 2019

Dalton Trans., 2019,48, 5569-5573

Author version available

Dioxygen reacts with metal–carbon bonds in thorium dialkyls to produce bis(alkoxides)

N. S. Settineri, A. A. Shiau and J. Arnold, Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 5569 DOI: 10.1039/C9DT00811J

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