Crystallographic evidence of a base-free uranium(IV) terminal oxo species

Steven J Kraft; Justin Walensky; Phillip E Fanwick; Michael B Hall; Suzanne C Bart

doi:10.1021/ic101136j

Crystallographic evidence of a base-free uranium(IV) terminal oxo species

Inorg Chem. 2010 Sep 6;49(17):7620-2. doi: 10.1021/ic101136j.

Authors

Steven J Kraft¹, Justin Walensky, Phillip E Fanwick, Michael B Hall, Suzanne C Bart

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.

PMID: 20672833
DOI: 10.1021/ic101136j

Abstract

The uranium(IV) terminal oxo species Tp*(2)U(O) has been synthesized by oxygen-atom transfer from pyridine-N-oxide to Tp*(2)U(2,2'-bipyridine), a trivalent uranium species with a monoanionic bipyridine ligand. Full characterization of the oxo species using (1)H NMR and IR spectroscopies, X-ray crystallography, and computational studies was performed.