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Comparison of Two Different Synthesis Methods of Single Crystals of Superconducting Uranium Ditelluride
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Multiple Bonds in Uranium-Transition Metal Complexes
Abstract:
Novel heterobimetallic complexes featuring a uranium atom paired with a first-row transition metal have been computationally predicted and analyzed using density functional theory and multireference wave function based methods. The synthetically inspired metalloligands U{(iPr2PCH2NAr)3tacn} (1) and U(iPr2PCH2NPh)3 (2) are explored in this study. We report the presence of multiple bonds between uranium and chromium, uranium and manganese, and uranium and iron. The calculations predict a 5-fold bonding between uranium and manganese in the UMn(iPr2PCH2NPh)3 complex, which is unprecedented in the literature.
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