Main Group Metal–Actinide Magnetic Coupling and Structural Response Upon U4+ Inclusion Into Bi, Tl/Bi, or Pb/Bi Cages
Author(s) -
Niels Lichtenberger,
Robert J. Wilson,
Armin R. Eulenstein,
Werner Massa,
Rodolphe Clérac,
Florian Weigend,
Stefanie Dehnen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the american chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.115
H-Index - 612
eISSN - 1520-5126
pISSN - 0002-7863
DOI - 10.1021/jacs.6b04363
Subject(s) - chemistry , actinide , metal , coupling (piping) , inductive coupling , inclusion (mineral) , group (periodic table) , crystallography , inorganic chemistry , metallurgy , mineralogy , physics , organic chemistry , materials science , quantum mechanics
The encapsulation of actinide ions in intermetalloid clusters has long been proposed but was never realized synthetically. We report the isolation and experimental, as well as quantum chemical, characterization of the uranium-centered clusters [U@Bi12](3-), [U@Tl2Bi11](3-), [U@Pb7Bi7](3-), and [U@Pb4Bi9](3-), upon reaction of (EE'Bi2)(2-) (E = Ga, Tl, E' = Bi; E = E' = Pb) and [U(C5Me4H)3] or [U(C5Me4H)3Cl] in 1,2-diaminoethane. For [U@Bi12](3-), magnetic susceptibility measurements rationalize an unprecedented antiferromagnetic coupling between a magnetic U(4+) site and a unique radical Bi12(7-) shell.
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