Four-electron reduction chemistry using a uranium(iii) phosphido complex

Pokpong Rungthanaphatsophon; Charles L Barnes; Steven P Kelley; Justin R Walensky

doi:10.1039/c8dt01406j

Four-electron reduction chemistry using a uranium(iii) phosphido complex

Dalton Trans. 2018 Jun 25;47(25):8189-8192. doi: 10.1039/c8dt01406j.

Authors

Pokpong Rungthanaphatsophon¹, Charles L Barnes, Steven P Kelley, Justin R Walensky

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. walenskyj@missouri.edu.

PMID: 29869658
DOI: 10.1039/c8dt01406j

Abstract

The first uranium(iii) phosphido complex is reported. The reaction of (C5Me5)2UI(THF) with KP[(C6H2Me3-2,4,6)(SiMe3)] affords (C5Me5)2U[P(C6H2Me3-2,4,6)(SiMe3)](THF), 1. The reactivity of 1 was explored with two equivalents of N3SiMe3 and N3Ad, Ad = adamantyl, both of which produce U(vi) bis(imido) complexes via four-electron reduction of the azides.