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Frontispiece: A Rare Tetranuclear Thorium(IV) μ 4 ‐Oxo Cluster and Dinuclear Thorium(IV) Complex Assembled by Carbon–Oxygen Bond Activation of 1,2‐Dimethoxyethane (DME)
Author(s) -
Travia Nicholas E.,
Scott Brian L.,
Kiplinger Jaqueline L.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201485161
Subject(s) - thorium , dimethoxyethane , actinide , chemistry , alkoxide , iodide , molecule , inorganic chemistry , uranium , catalysis , materials science , organic chemistry , electrode , electrolyte , metallurgy
Thorium Iodide—Running with Scissors 1,2‐Dimethoxyethane (DME) is normally a robust ligand for actinide chemistry and the isolation of well‐defined oxo and alkoxide complexes resulting from actinide‐mediated activation of DME is rare. In their Communication on page 16846 ff., J. L. Kiplinger et al. describe the synthesis and characterization of two novel multimetallic thorium species formed by the room temperature CO bond activation of multiple DME molecules by thorium iodide complexes. Josh Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory) is acknowledged for the frontispiece picture artwork.