A diuranium carbide cluster stabilized inside a C80 fullerene cage

A diuranium carbide cluster stabilized inside a C80 fullerene cage

While metal–carbon double bonds are common in transition metal chemistry and catalysis, unsupported uranium–carbon double bonds remain highly challenging to prepare. Here, the authors stabilize and characterize a U=C=U cluster containing unusually short, unsupported double bonds inside an I h(7)-C80...

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Main Authors: Xingxing Zhang, Wanlu Li, Lai Feng, Xin Chen, Andreas Hansen, Stefan Grimme, Skye Fortier, Dumitru-Claudiu Sergentu, Thomas J. Duignan, Jochen Autschbach, Shuao Wang, Yaofeng Wang, Giorgios Velkos, Alexey A. Popov, Nabi Aghdassi, Steffen Duhm, Xiaohong Li, Jun Li, Luis Echegoyen, W. H. Eugen Schwarz, Ning Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05210-8
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Summary:While metal–carbon double bonds are common in transition metal chemistry and catalysis, unsupported uranium–carbon double bonds remain highly challenging to prepare. Here, the authors stabilize and characterize a U=C=U cluster containing unusually short, unsupported double bonds inside an I h(7)-C80 fullerene cage.
ISSN:2041-1723

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