Thorium-nitrogen multiple bonds provide evidence for pushing-from-below for early actinides

Despite the burgeoning nature of uranium–ligand multiple bonding, analogous thorium complexes remain incredibly rare. Here the authors report evidence for a transient thorium–nitride species, which, together with data on parent imido derivatives, suggests that the pushing-from-below phenomenon may b...

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Main Authors: Jingzhen Du, Carlos Alvarez-Lamsfus, Elizabeth P. Wildman, Ashley J. Wooles, Laurent Maron, Stephen T. Liddle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12206-5