The renaissance of non‐aqueous uranium chemistry

ST Liddle - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Prior to the year 2000, non‐aqueous uranium chemistry mainly involved metallocene and
classical alkyl, amide, or alkoxide compounds as well as established carbene, imido, and …

Nonaqueous Electrochemistry of Uranium Complexes: A Guide to Structure–Reactivity Tuning

J Riedhammer, DP Halter, K Meyer - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Uranium complexes can be stabilized in a wide range of oxidation states, ranging from UII to
UVI and a very recent example of a UI complex. This review provides a comprehensive …

A flexible electromagnetic wave-electricity harvester

H Lv, Z Yang, B Liu, G Wu, Z Lou, B Fei, R Wu - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Develo** an ultimate electromagnetic (EM)-absorbing material that can not only dissipate
EM energy but also convert the generated heat into electricity is highly desired but remains a …

31P Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as a Probe of Thorium–Phosphorus Bond Covalency: Correlating Phosphorus Chemical Shift to Metal–Phosphorus …

J Du, J Hurd, JA Seed, G Balázs… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the use of solution and solid-state 31P Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
spectroscopy combined with Density Functional Theory calculations to benchmark the …

Covalency in Lanthanides. An X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Study of LnCl6x (x = 3, 2)

MW Löble, JM Keith, AB Altman… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Covalency in Ln–Cl bonds of O h-LnCl6 x–(x= 3 for Ln= CeIII, NdIII, SmIII, EuIII, GdIII; x= 2 for
Ln= CeIV) anions has been investigated, primarily using Cl K-edge X-ray absorption …

Energy-degeneracy-driven covalency in actinide bonding

J Su, ER Batista, KS Boland, SE Bone… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Evaluating the nature of chemical bonding for actinide elements represents one of the most
important and long-standing problems in actinide science. We directly address this …

High-energy resolution X-ray spectroscopy at actinide M 4, 5 and ligand K edges: what we know, what we want to know, and what we can know

KO Kvashnina, SM Butorin - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, scientists have progressively recognized the role of electronic structures in
the characterization of chemical properties for actinide containing materials. High-energy …

Influence of Pyrazolate vs N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands on the Slow Magnetic Relaxation of Homoleptic Trischelate Lanthanide(III) and Uranium(III) Complexes

KR Meihaus, SG Minasian, WW Lukens Jr… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Two isostructural series of trigonal prismatic complexes, M (BpMe) 3 and M (BcMe) 3 (M= Y,
Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, U;[BpMe]−= dihydrobis (methypyrazolyl) borate;[BcMe]−= dihydrobis …

Exceptional uranium(VI)-nitride triple bond covalency from 15N nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and quantum chemical analysis

J Du, JA Seed, VEJ Berryman, N Kaltsoyannis… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Determining the nature and extent of covalency of early actinide chemical bonding is a
fundamentally important challenge. Recently, X-ray absorption, electron paramagnetic, and …

Ab initio ligand-field theory analysis and covalency trends in actinide and lanthanide free ions and octahedral complexes

J Jung, M Atanasov, F Neese - Inorganic Chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Actinide chemistry is gaining increased focus in modern research, particularly in the fields of
energy research and molecular magnetism. However, the structure–function and structure …