Phenylsilane as a safe, versatile alternative to hydrogen for the synthesis of actinide hydrides

Justin K Pagano; Jacquelyn M Dorhout; Rory Waterman; Kenneth R Czerwinski; Jaqueline L Kiplinger

doi:10.1039/c5cc06856h

Phenylsilane as a safe, versatile alternative to hydrogen for the synthesis of actinide hydrides

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Dec 21;51(98):17379-81. doi: 10.1039/c5cc06856h. Epub 2015 Oct 22.

Authors

Justin K Pagano¹, Jacquelyn M Dorhout, Rory Waterman, Kenneth R Czerwinski, Jaqueline L Kiplinger

Affiliation

¹ Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop J514, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. kiplinger@lanl.gov.

PMID: 26490094
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc06856h

Abstract

The thorium and uranium dihydride dimer complexes [(C5Me5)2An(H)(μ-H)]2 (An = Th, U) have been easily prepared using phenylsilane, which is an efficient and safer alternative to hydrogen gas. The synthetic utility of this new hydriding method has been demonstrated by the preparation of a variety of organometallic complexes, including, for the first time, (C5Me5)2U(SMe)2, (C5Me5)2Th(C4Ph4), (C5Me5)2U(C4Ph4), (C5Me5)2ThS5, and (C5Me5)2U(bipy) using [(C5Me5)2An(H)(μ-H)]2 (An = Th, U) as multi-electron reductants.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.