A charged diatomic triple-bonded U≡N species trapped in C82 fullerene cages

Diatomic actinide molecules are ideal models for studying rare multiple-bond motifs. Here, the authors report host-guest structures of metastable charged U≡N diatoms confined in fullerene cages and stabilized by coordinative electron transfer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Qingyu Meng, Laura Abella, Yang-Rong Yao, Dumitru-Claudiu Sergentu, Wei Yang, Xinye Liu, Jiaxin Zhuang, Luis Echegoyen, Jochen Autschbach, Ning Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34651-5