A heterobimetallic complex with an unsupported uranium(III)-aluminum(I) bond: (CpSiMe3)3U-AlCp* (Cp* = C5Me5)

Stefan G Minasian; Jamin L Krinsky; Valerie A Williams; John Arnold

doi:10.1021/ja8042382

A heterobimetallic complex with an unsupported uranium(III)-aluminum(I) bond: (CpSiMe3)3U-AlCp* (Cp* = C5Me5)

J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Aug 6;130(31):10086-7. doi: 10.1021/ja8042382. Epub 2008 Jul 11.

Authors

Stefan G Minasian¹, Jamin L Krinsky, Valerie A Williams, John Arnold

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, and the Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720-1460, USA.

PMID: 18616247
DOI: 10.1021/ja8042382

Abstract

A heterobimetallic complex with the first unsupported bond between an actinide and a group 13 element, (CpSiMe3)3U-AlCp* (Cp* = C5Me5) (1), was synthesized by reaction of (CpSiMe3)3U and 1/4(Cp*Al)4 in toluene. Density functional theory calculations indicate that the U-Al bond exhibits some covalent character resulting from a Cp*Al-->U charge-transfer.