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(18-Crown-6)-bis(tetrahydrofuran)potassium iodide

(Dibenzo-18-crown-6)(2-phenylamidopyridine)potassium(I)

(Dibenzo-18-crown-6)(2-phenylamidopyridine)rubidium(I)

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A Crystallizable dinuclear tuck-in-tuck-over tuck-over dialkyl Tren uranium complex and double dearylation of BPh(4)(-) to give the BPh(2)-functionalized metallocycle [U{N(CH(2)CH(2)NSiMe(3))(2)(CH(2)CH(2)NSiMe(2)CHBPh(2))}(THF)].

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A Remarkable Isostructural Homologous Series of Mixed Lithium−Heavier Alkali Metaltert-Butoxides [(t-BuO)8Li4M4] (M = Na, K, Rb or Cs)

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A Uranium(VI)-Oxo-Imido Dimer Complex Derived from a Sterically Demanding Triamidoamine

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

A Very Short Uranium(IV)-Rhodium(I) Bond with Net Double-Dative Bonding Character.

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

A convenient route to lanthanide triiodide THF solvates. Crystal structures of LnI(3)(THF)(4) [Ln = Pr] and LnI(3)(THF)(3.5) [Ln = Nd, Gd, Y].

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A delocalized arene-bridged diuranium single-molecule magnet

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A heterobimetallic gallyl complex containing an unsupported Ga-Y bond

scientific article published in April 2009

A homologous series of crown-ether-complexed alkali metal amides as discrete ion-pair species: synthesis and structures of [M(12-crown-4)2][PyNPh·PyN(H)Ph] (M=Li, Na and K)

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A lanthanide-gallium complex stabilized by the N-heterocyclic carbene group.

scientific article published on 6 April 2007

A monometallic lanthanide bis(methanediide) single molecule magnet with a large energy barrier and complex spin relaxation behaviour.

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

A novel heterometallic alkoxide: lithium–potassium tert-butoxide [(ButO)8Li4K4]

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A triamido-uranium(V) inverse-sandwich 10π-toluene tetraanion arene complex

scientific article published on 28 February 2013

A triclinic polymorph of octa-tert-butoxytetralithiumtetrasodium

Actinide-Pnictide (An-Pn) Bonds Spanning Non-Metal, Metalloid, and Metal Combinations (An=U, Th; Pn=P, As, Sb, Bi).

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Alkali Metal-Mediated Schlenk Dimerization of a Phosphorus-Substituted Alkene. Synthesis and Crystal Structures of Li, Na, and K Derivatives of a Phosphorus-Stabilized Butane-1,4-diide Ligand

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Alkali metal derivatives of an ortho-phenylene diamine

scientific article published in March 2014

Alkali metal–1-azaallyl complexes: X-ray crystallographic, NMR spectroscopic and ab initio calculational studies

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Alkyl Complexes of Strontium and Barium: Synthesis and Structural Characterization of {(Me3Si)2(MeOMe2Si)C}2Sr(THF) and {(Me3Si)2(MeOMe2Si)C}2Ba(MeOCH2CH2OMe)

scholarly article by Keith Izod et al published June 2003 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Amino-functionalised diarylphosphide complexes of the alkali metals and lanthanum

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An Inverted-Sandwich Diuranium μ-η(5):η(5)-Cyclo-P5 Complex Supported by U-P5 δ-Bonding

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

An Inverted-Sandwich Diuranium μ-η(5):η(5)-Cyclo-P5 Complex Supported by U-P5 δ-Bonding

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An actinide Zintl cluster: a tris(triamidouranium)μ3-η2:η2:η2-heptaphosphanortricyclane and its diverse synthetic utility

scientific article published on 14 October 2013

An unsupported transition metal–lanthanide bond; synthesis and crystal structure of an Nd–Fe amido N-heterocyclic carbene complex

An unsupported uranium-rhenium complex prepared by alkane elimination.

scientific article published on 6 May 2011

Anionic tethered N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry

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Assessing crystal field and magnetic interactions in diuranium-μ-chalcogenide triamidoamine complexes with UIV-E-UIV cores (E = S, Se, Te): implications for determining the presence or absence of actinide-actinide magnetic exchange

scientific article published on 5 July 2017

Author Correction: The inverse-trans-influence in tetravalent lanthanide and actinide bis(carbene) complexes

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Back-bonding between an electron-poor, high-oxidation-state metal and poor π-acceptor ligand in a uranium(V)-dinitrogen complex

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Bent metal carbene geometries in amido N-heterocyclic carbene complexes.

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Bifunctional yttrium(III) and titanium(IV) NHC catalysts for lactide polymerisation

scientific article published on 25 January 2006

Bimetallic Cooperative Cleavage of Dinitrogen to Nitride and Tandem Frustrated Lewis Pair Hydrogenation to Ammonia

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Bis[μ-2-(phenylamido)pyridine]bis{[2-(phenylamino)pyridine]lithium(I)}

Catalytic Dinitrogen Reduction to Ammonia at a Triamidoamine-Titanium Complex

scientific article published on 6 April 2018

Cation-induced structural variations in the alkali metal derivatives of 2-trimethylsilylaminopyridine: synthesis and X-ray structures of complexes for all five metals Li–Cs with 12-crown-4 †

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Charge control of the inverse trans-influence

scientific article published on 2 October 2015

Comparisons between yttrium and titanium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes in the search for early transition metal NHC backbonding interactions

scientific article published on 4 September 2008

Corrigendum: On the Nature of Actinide- and Lanthanide-Metal Bonds in Heterobimetallic Compounds

scholarly article published in Chemistry—A European Journal

Crystalline Diuranium Phosphinidiide and μ-Phosphido Complexes with Symmetric and Asymmetric UPU Cores

scientific article published on 5 July 2017

Deprotonation of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes to Afford Heterobimetallic Organolanthanide Complexes

Dis-assembling lithium amide ladder structures: new insight through the structure of [{[PhCH2N(H)Li]2·thf}∞], a polymer of (NLi)2 planar rings connected by thf-bridged (NLi)2 butterfly junctions

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Emergence of comparable covalency in isostructural cerium(iv)- and uranium(iv)-carbon multiple bonds.

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

Emergence of the structure-directing role of f-orbital overlap-driven covalency

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Evidence for single metal two electron oxidative addition and reductive elimination at uranium

scientific article published in December 2017

F-block N-heterocyclic carbene complexes

scientific article published on 7 August 2006

Halide, amide, cationic, manganese carbonylate, and oxide derivatives of triamidosilylamine uranium complexes.

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Heavier alkali metal complexes of 2-phenylamidopyridine: an X-ray crystallographic and theoretical study of a structurally diverse series of crown ether adducts

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Homologation and functionalization of carbon monoxide by a recyclable uranium complex

scientific article published on May 31, 2012

Improving f-element single molecule magnets

scientific article published on 09 July 2015

Insights into <i>D</i><sub>4h</sub>@metal-symmetry single-molecule magnetism: the case of a dysprosium-bis(boryloxide) complex

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

International Year of the Periodic Table: Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Isolation and characterization of a uranium(VI)-nitride triple bond

scientific article published on 5 May 2013

Isolation of Elusive HAsAsH in a Crystalline Diuranium(IV) Complex

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Lithiated organophosphorus enamines: a new synthetic approach and the first crystal structures

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Metal-metal bonds in f-element chemistry

scientific article published on 06 May 2009

Molecular and electronic structure of terminal and alkali metal-capped uranium(V) nitride complexes

scientific article (publication date: 20 December 2016)

On the Nature of Actinide- and Lanthanide-Metal Bonds in Heterobimetallic Compounds

Pentanuclear asymmetrical ladder structure of the 1,4-dimethylpiperazine solvate of lithium anilide and its implication for the unknown structure of amorphous lithium anilide

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Photochemically promoted bond-cleavage and -capture in a diazomethane derivative of a triamidoamine uranium(IV) complex.

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Photolytic and Reductive Activations of 2-Arsaethynolate in a Uranium-Triamidoamine Complex: Decarbonylative Arsenic-Group Transfer Reactions and Trapping of a Highly Bent and Reduced Form

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

Polarised covalent thorium(IV)- and uranium(IV)-silicon bonds

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Polymeric (18-crown-6)bis(2-amidopyridinecaesium) toluene solvate

Potassium-zinc induced synergic enhancement of the basicity of hexamethyldisilazide (HMDS) towards methylbenzene molecules

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Prediction of high bond-order metal-metal multiple-bonds in heterobimetallic 3d-4f/5f complexes [TM-M{N(o-[NCH2P(CH3)2]C6H4)3}] (TM = Cr, Mn, Fe; M = U, Np, Pu, and Nd)

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Preparation of Heterobimetallic Ketimido-Actinide-Molybdenum Complexes

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Rare-Earth- and Uranium-Mesoionic Carbenes: A New Class of f-Block Carbene Complex Derived from an N-Heterocyclic Olefin

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

Reductive assembly of cyclobutadienyl and diphosphacyclobutadienyl rings at uranium

scientific article published in January 2013

Regioselective C-H activation and sequential C-C and C-O bond formation reactions of aryl ketones promoted by an yttrium carbene

scientific article published on October 2010

Regioselective C-H activation of lanthanide-bound N-heterocyclic carbenes.

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Silyl-Phosphino-Carbene Complexes of Uranium(IV).

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Single-molecule magnetism in a single-ion triamidoamine uranium(V) terminal mono-oxo complex

scientific article published on 8 April 2013

Studies of hysteresis and quantum tunnelling of the magnetisation in dysprosium(iii) single molecule magnets

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Synthesis and Characterization of 1,3-Diphosphapropene and Alkali-Metal 1,3-Diphosphaallyl Complexes and Unexpected 1,3-Rearrangement of a Cesium 1,3-Diphosphaallyl Complex to a Cesium Secondary Phosphanide

Synthesis and Reactions of Sterically Encumbered, Heteroleptic Lanthanum Phosphides. Structural Characterization of [{(Me3Si)2CH}- (C6H4-2-CH2NMe2)P]2La(OR) and [{(Me3Si)2CH}- (C6H4-2-CH2NMe2)P]La(THF)[P(C6H4-2-CH2NMe2)- {CH(SiMe3)(SiMe2CH2)}] [R =i-

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Synthesis and characterisation of halide, separated ion pair, and hydride cyclopentadienyl iron bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane derivatives

scientific article published in July 2015

Synthesis and characterisation of yttrium complexes supported by the beta-diketiminate ligand {ArNC(CH3)CHC(CH3)NAr}- (Ar = 2,6-Pr(i)2C6H3).

scientific article published on 20 June 2007

Synthesis and characterization of an f-block terminal parent imido [U═NH] complex: a masked uranium(IV) nitride

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Synthesis and crystal structure of the heteroleptic lanthanum(III) bis-diphosphinomethanide complex [La{CH(PPh2)2}2(I)(THF)2]

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Synthesis and reactivity of neodymium(III) amido-tethered N-heterocyclic carbene complexes

scholarly article by Polly Arnold & Stephen Liddle published June 2008 in Comptes Rendus Chimie

Synthesis and reactivity of the yttrium-alkyl-carbene complex [Y(BIPM)(CH(2)C(6)H(5))(THF)] (BIPM = {C(PPh(2)NSiMe(3))(2)}).

scientific article published on 24 April 2009

Synthesis and structural characterisation of an yttrium-alkyl-alkylidene

scientific article published on 8 February 2008

Synthesis and structure of [U{C(PPh2NMes)2}2] (Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2): A homoleptic uranium bis(carbene) complex with two formal U=C double bonds.

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Synthesis and structure of [{N(CH2CH2NSiMe3)3}URe(eta5-C5H5)2]: a heterobimetallic complex with an unsupported uranium-rhenium bond.

scientific article published on 24 April 2009

Synthesis and structure of a bis-N-heterocyclic carbene complex of uranium tetrachloride exhibiting short ClC(carbene) contacts.

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Synthesis and structure of a terminal uranium nitride complex.

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Synthesis and structure of the novel heptalithiumtetrarubidium mixed alkoxide peroxide [{(ButOLi)5(ButORb)4(Li2O2)·2tmeda}∞]: twenty-two vertex cage molecules linked by Rb–TMEDA–Rb bridges

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Synthesis of Heteroleptic Cerium(III) Anionic Amido-Tethered N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes

scholarly article by Stephen Liddle & Polly Arnold published May 2005 in Organometallics

Synthesis, characterisation and a theoretical investigation of the formation of lithium dialkylaluminium amides

Synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of a uranium(VI) carbene imido oxo complex

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Terminal Parent Phosphanide and Phosphinidene Complexes of Zirconium(IV).

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Terminal Uranium(V/VI) Nitride Activation of Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Disulfide: Factors Governing Diverse and Well-Defined Cleavage and Redox Reactions

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Terminal uranium(V)-nitride hydrogenations involving direct addition or Frustrated Lewis Pair mechanisms

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

Tetravalent cerium carbene complexes

scholarly article by Ian J. Casely et al published 2007 in Chemical Communications

The First Structural Characterisation of a Group 2 Metal Alkylperoxide Complex: Comments on the Cleavage of Dioxygen by Magnesium Alkyl Complexes

scientific article published on October 6, 2003

The First Structurally Authenticated Rb−PR3and Cs−PR3Contacts. Synthesis and Crystal Structures of [Rb{(Me3Si)2CP(C6H4-2-CH2NMe2)2}]nand [Cs{(Me3Si)2CP(C6H4-2-CH2NMe2)2}(toluene)]n

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The Renaissance of Non-Aqueous Uranium Chemistry

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

The changing structural chemistry of lithium anilide on solvation by pyridine, 4-methylpyridine or 4-tert-butylpyridine

The ditungsten decacarbonyl dianion

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

The first structurally authenticated alkali metal 1,3-diphosphaallyl complex [{ButC(PMes)2}Li(thf)3] (Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2): an alternative synthetic approach to substituted 1,3-diphosphaallyl complexes

scientific article published on March 21, 2003

The inherent single-molecule magnet character of trivalent uranium

scientific article published on 10 February 2013

The ketimide ligand is not just an inert spectator: heteroallene insertion reactivity of an actinide-ketimide linkage in a thorium carbene amide ketimide complex

scientific article published on 7 July 2014

The nature of the U=C double bond: pushing the stability of high-oxidation-state uranium carbenes to the limit.

scientific article published on 4 April 2013

The nature of unsupported uranium-ruthenium bonds: a combined experimental and theoretical study

scientific article published on 26 August 2011

Thorium- and uranium-azide reductions: a transient dithorium-nitride isolable diuranium-nitrides

scientific article published on 23 February 2019

Thorium-nitrogen multiple bonds provide evidence for pushing-from-below for early actinides

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Thorium-phosphorus triamidoamine complexes containing Th-P single- and multiple-bond interactions

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

Titanium(III) Alkoxy-N-heterocyclic Carbenes and a Safe, Low-Cost Route to TiCl3(THF)3

scholarly article by Natalie A. Jones et al published January 2007 in Organometallics

Trapping of a Highly Bent and Reduced Form of 2-Phosphaethynolate in a Mixed-Valence Diuranium-Triamidoamine Complex

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Triamidoamine thorium-arsenic complexes with parent arsenide, arsinidiide and arsenido structural motifs

scientific article published on 9 March 2017

Triamidoamine uranium(IV)-arsenic complexes containing one-, two- and threefold U-As bonding interactions

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Triamidoamine-uranium(IV)-stabilized terminal parent phosphide and phosphinidene complexes.

scientific article published on 18 March 2014

Two-electron reductive carbonylation of terminal uranium(V) and uranium(VI) nitrides to cyanate by carbon monoxide

scientific article published on 30 July 2014

Uranium Metalla-Allenes with Carbene Imido R2 C=U(IV) =NR' Units (R=Ph2 PNSiMe3 ; R'=CPh3 ): Alkali-Metal-Mediated Push-Pull Effects with an Amido Auxiliary

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Uranium(III)-carbon multiple bonding supported by arene δ-bonding in mixed-valence hexauranium nanometre-scale rings.

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Uranium(IV) amide and halide derivatives of two tripodal tris(N-arylamido-dimethylsilyl)methanes

scientific article published on 12 March 2010

Uranium-carbon multiple bonding: facile access to the pentavalent uranium carbene [U{C(PPh2NSiMe3)2}(Cl)2(I)] and comparison of U(V)=C and U(IV)=C bonds.

scientific article published on 14 February 2011

Uranyl-tri- bis(silyl)amide Alkali Metal Contact and Separated Ion Pair Complexes

scientific article published on 18 May 2018

[U(III) {N(SiMe2 tBu)2 }3 ]: a structurally authenticated trigonal planar actinide complex

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f-Element Half-Sandwich Complexes: A Tetrasilylcyclobutadienyl-Uranium(IV)-Tris(tetrahydroborate) Anion Pianostool Complex

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

‘Inverse crown ether’ complexes extended to group 12 through the syntheses of [Na2Zn2(HMDS)4(O)] and [{K2Zn2(HMDS)4(O2)x(O)y}∞]

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