Formation of inclusion organoactinide complexes with boron-containing macrocycles

Eyal Barnea; Tamer Andrea; Moshe Kapon; Moris S Eisen

doi:10.1021/ja0498843

Formation of inclusion organoactinide complexes with boron-containing macrocycles

J Am Chem Soc. 2004 Apr 28;126(16):5066-7. doi: 10.1021/ja0498843.

Authors

Eyal Barnea¹, Tamer Andrea, Moshe Kapon, Moris S Eisen

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Institute of Catalysis Science and Technology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.

PMID: 15099079
DOI: 10.1021/ja0498843

Abstract

Reaction of the organoactinide complexes (C5Me5)2AnMe2 (An = Th, U) with catecholborane yields an inclusion complex where the actinide is encapsulated inside a 15-membered, hexaoxo, trianionic macrocycle built from alternating catechol and catecholborate fragments. In the presence of LiOH, a dimer of two encapsulated actinide macrocycles is formed. The X-ray molecular structure for all the complexes is presented.