Pentanuclear Thorium(IV) Coordination Cluster from the Use of Di(2-pyridyl) Ketone

Sokratis T Tsantis; Panagiota Danelli; Demetrios I Tzimopoulos; Catherine P Raptopoulou; Vassilis Psycharis; Spyros P Perlepes

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01800

Pentanuclear Thorium(IV) Coordination Cluster from the Use of Di(2-pyridyl) Ketone

Inorg Chem. 2021 Aug 16;60(16):11888-11892. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01800. Epub 2021 Aug 5.

Authors

Sokratis T Tsantis^{1

2}, Panagiota Danelli¹, Demetrios I Tzimopoulos³, Catherine P Raptopoulou⁴, Vassilis Psycharis⁴, Spyros P Perlepes^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.
² Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT), P.O Box 144, 26504 Platani, Greece.
³ Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁴ Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology NCSR "Demokritos", 15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Attikis, Greece.

PMID: 34351755
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01800

Abstract

The Th(NO₃)₄·5H₂O/di(2-pyridyl) ketone [(py)₂CO] reaction system gives a pentanuclear cluster containing the doubly deprotonated form of the gem-diol derivative of the ligand. The cluster consists of a tetrahedral arrangement of four Th^IV ions centered on the fifth ion, which is the first characterized Th^IV₅ complex. The analysis of its structure reveals that this is a Kuratowski-type coordination compound.