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D M Ramitha Y P Rupasinghe1, Makayla R Baxter1, Himanshu Gupta2
1H. C. Brown Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States.
Abstract:
The first non-uranyl, f-element oxo complex synthesized from dioxygen in dry air is presented in this work. The synthesis was accomplished by treating the redox-active thorium amidophenolate complex, [Th(dippap)3][K(15-c-5)2]2 (1-ap crown), with dioxygen in dry air, forming a rare terminal thorium oxo, [O═Th(dippisq)2(dippap)][K(15-c-5)2]2 (2-oxo). Compound 1-ap crown was regenerated by treating 2-oxo with potassium graphite. X-ray crystallography of 2-oxo revealed a comparatively longer bond length for the thorium-oxygen double bond when compared to other thorium oxos. As such, several thorium-oxygen single bonds were synthesized for comparison, including Th(dippisq)2(OSiMe3)2(THF) (4-OSiMe), Th(OSiMe3)4(bipy)2 (5-OSiMe), and [Th(OH)2 (dippHap)4][K(15-c-5)2]2 (6-OH). Full spectroscopic and structural characterization of the complexes was performed via 1H NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, EPR spectroscopy, and electronic absorption spectroscopy as well as SQUID magnetometry, which all confirmed the electronic structure of these complexes.
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