Carbon oxygenate transformations by actinide compounds and catalysts

Thermodynamic Strategies for C–O Bond Formation and Cleavage via Tandem Catalysis

(2016) Tracy L. Lohr et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Nucleophilic Reactivity of a Nitride-Bridged Diuranium(IV) Complex: CO2 and CS2 Functionalization

(2016) Marta Falcone et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Subtle Interactions and Electron Transfer between UIII , NpIII , or PuIII and Uranyl Mediated by the Oxo Group

(2016) Polly L. Arnold et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Thermodynamic Presynthetic Considerations for Ring-Opening Polymerization

(2016) Peter Olsén et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Neptunium and plutonium complexes with a sterically encumbered triamidoamine (TREN) scaffold

(2016) Jessie L. Brown et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Lanthanides and actinides: Annual survey of their organometallic chemistry covering the year 2015

(2016) Frank T. Edelmann   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Cooperative rare earth metal–zinc based heterometallic catalysts for copolymerization of CO2 and cyclohexene oxide

(2016) Jie Qin et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Actinide-Catalyzed Intermolecular Addition of Alcohols to Carbodiimides

(2016) Rami J. Batrice et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Organometallic neptunium(III) complexes

(2016) Michał S. Dutkiewicz et al.   Nature Chemistry

Synthesis and Reactivity of a U(IV) Dibenzyne Complex

(2016) Elizabeth A. Pedrick et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

1,2-Addition or Enolization? Variable Reactivity of a Cerium Acetylide Complex toward Carbonyl Compounds

(2016) Jee Eon Kim et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Catalysts for CO2/epoxide ring-opening copolymerization

(2016) G. Trott et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Synthesis and reactivity of a terminal uranium(iv) sulfide supported by siloxide ligands

(2016) Julie Andrez et al.   Chemical Science

Catalytic insertion of E–H bonds (E = C, N, P, S) into heterocumulenes by amido–actinide complexes

(2016) Rami J. Batrice et al.   Chemical Science

Actinide-Mediated Catalytic Addition of EH Bonds (E=N, P, S) to Carbodiimides, Isocyanates, and Isothiocyanates

(2015) Isabell S. R. Karmel et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Renaissance of Non-Aqueous Uranium Chemistry

(2015) Stephen T. Liddle   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

CO2 conversion to isocyanate via multiple N–Si bond cleavage at a bulky uranium(iii) complex

(2015) Clément Camp et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Coordination chemistry of 2,2′-biphenylenedithiophosphinate and diphenyldithiophosphinate with U, Np, and Pu

(2015) Joseph A. Macor et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Mixed sandwich thorium complexes incorporating bis(tri-isopropylsilyl)cyclooctatetraenyl and pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ligands: synthesis, structure and reactivity

(2015) Zoë E. Button et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Uranium-mediated oxidative addition and reductive elimination

(2015) Erli Lu et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

A Linear trans-Bis(imido) Neptunium(V) Actinyl Analog: NpV(NDipp)2(tBu2bipy)2Cl (Dipp = 2,6-iPr2C6H3)

(2015) Jessie L. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Four-electron deoxygenative reductive coupling of carbon monoxide at a single metal site

(2015) Joshua A. Buss et al.   NATURE

Activation of carbon dioxide by new mixed sandwich uranium(iii) complexes incorporating cyclooctatetraenyl and pyrrolide, phospholide, or arsolide ligands

(2015) Rachel J. Kahan et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Group 4 Lanthanide and Actinide Organometallic Inclusion Complexes

(2015) Raj K. Das et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Synthesis and Reactivity of a Mixed-Sandwich Uranium(IV) Primary Amido Complex

(2015) Jessica A. Higgins Frey et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Actinide Amidinate Complexes with a Dimethylamine Side Arm: Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Reactivity

(2015) Isabell S. R. Karmel et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Mixed Imidazolin-2-iminato–Cp* Thorium(IV) Complexes: Synthesis and Reactivity Toward Oxygen-Containing Substrates

(2015) Isabell S. R. Karmel et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Polylactic Acid in Medicine

(2015) Seyed Mohammad Davachi et al.   POLYMER-PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING

Uranium-mediated ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone: a comparative study

(2015) Isabell S. R. Karmel et al.   Catalysis Science & Technology

Stereoselective Epoxide Polymerization and Copolymerization

(2014) M. Ian Childers et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Activation of SO2and CO2by Trivalent Uranium Leading to Sulfite/Dithionite and Carbonate/Oxalate Complexes

(2014) Anna-Corina Schmidt et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Reactivity of the uranium(iv) carbene complex [U(BIPMTMS)(Cl)(μ-Cl)2Li(THF)2] (BIPMTMS= {C(PPh2NSiMe3)2}) towards carbonyl and heteroallene substrates: metallo-Wittig, adduct formation, C–F bond activation, and [2 + 2]-cycloaddition reactions

(2014) Oliver J. Cooper et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Dimethylsilyl bis(amidinate)actinide complexes: synthesis and reactivity towards oxygen containing substrates

(2014) Isabell S. R. Karmel et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Reversible Chalcogen-Atom Transfer to a Terminal Uranium Sulfide

(2014) Danil E. Smiles et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Uranium(IV) Imidazolin-2-iminato Complexes: A New Class of Actinide Complexes

(2014) Isabell S. R. Karmel et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

A Series of Uranium (IV, V, VI) Tritylimido Complexes, Their Molecular and Electronic Structures and Reactivity with CO2

(2014) Anna-Corina Schmidt et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Multielectron C–O Bond Activation Mediated by a Family of Reduced Uranium Complexes

(2014) John J. Kiernicki et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Molecular and Electronic Structure of Dinuclear Uranium Bis-μ-Oxo Complexes with Diamond Core Structural Motifs

(2014) Anna-Corina Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mono(imidazolin-2-iminato) Actinide Complexes: Synthesis and Application in the Catalytic Dimerization of Aldehydes

(2014) Isabell S. R. Karmel et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Multimetallic Cooperativity in Uranium-Mediated CO2 Activation

(2014) Oliver Cooper et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Efficient and Heteroselective Heteroscorpionate Rare-Earth-Metal Zwitterionic Initiators for ROP of rac-Lactide: Role of σ-Ligand

(2014) Zehuai Mou et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Does NHC Directly Participate in the CO2 Insertion into the UIII–N Bond? A Density Functional Theory Study

(2014) Wanjian Ding et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Controlling selectivity in the reductive activation of CO2 by mixed sandwich uranium(iii) complexes

(2014) Nikolaos Tsoureas et al.   Chemical Science

Reduction of carbon dioxide to oxalate by a binuclear copper complex

(2014) Uttam R. Pokharel et al.   Nature Communications

An overview of the synthetic routes to the best selling drugs containing 6-membered heterocycles

(2013) Marcus Baumann et al.   Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Catalyst Development for CO2Hydrogenation to Fuels

(2013) Uwe Rodemerck et al.   ChemCatChem

Nickel(i)-mediated transformations of carbon dioxide in closed synthetic cycles: reductive cleavage and coupling of CO2 generating NiICO, NiIICO3 and NiIIC2O4NiII entities

(2013) Bettina Horn et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

The Nature of the UC Double Bond: Pushing the Stability of High-Oxidation-State Uranium Carbenes to the Limit

(2013) Oliver J. Cooper et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Synthesis and characterization of NpCl4(DME)2and PuCl4(DME)2neutral transuranic An(iv) starting materials

(2013) Sean D. Reilly et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

New Mechanism for the Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactones? Uranyl Aryloxide-Induced Intermolecular Catalysis

(2013) Aurora Walshe et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Synthesis, structure, and catalytic activity of benzyl thorium metallocenes

(2013) Wenshan Ren et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS

Ligand Noninnocence of Thiolate/Disulfide in Dinuclear Copper Complexes: Solvent-Dependent Redox Isomerization and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer

(2013) Andrew M. Thomas et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Exploring the Insertion Chemistry of Tetrabenzyluranium Using Carbonyls and Organoazides

(2013) Steven J. Kraft et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Synthesis and CO2 Insertion Chemistry of Uranium(IV) Mixed-Sandwich Alkyl and Hydride Complexes

(2013) Jessica A. Higgins et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Diamido-Ether Actinide Complexes as Initiators for Lactide Ring-Opening Polymerization

(2013) Cassandra E. Hayes et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Synthesis and Reactivity of Trivalent Tp*U(CH2Ph)2(THF): Insertion vs Oxidation at Low-Valent Uranium–Carbon Bonds

(2013) Ellen M. Matson et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Siloxides as Supporting Ligands in Uranium(III)-Mediated Small-Molecule Activation

(2012) Victor Mougel et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Computational insight into the reductive oligomerisation of CO at uranium(iii) mixed-sandwich complexes

(2012) David McKay et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Uranium-mediated reductive conversion of CO2 to CO and carbonate in a single-vessel, closed synthetic cycle

(2012) Anna-Corina Schmidt et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Recent Developments in Synthesis and Structural Chemistry of Nonaqueous Actinide Complexes

(2012) Matthew B. Jones et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide insertion chemistry of f-block N-heterocyclic carbene complexes

(2012) Polly L. Arnold et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Trivalent Cerium and Praseodymium Aromatic Ketone Adducts

(2012) Alan R. Crozier et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Does Covalency Increase or Decrease across the Actinide Series? Implications for Minor Actinide Partitioning

(2012) Nikolas Kaltsoyannis   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Ring-Opening Polymerization of Epoxides Catalyzed by Uranyl Complexes: An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Reaction Mechanism

(2012) Jian Fang et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Reactivity of U–E–U (E = S, Se) Toward CO2, CS2, and COS: New Mixed-Carbonate Complexes of the Types U–CO2E–U (E = S, Se), U–CS2E–U (E = O, Se), and U–COSSe–U

(2012) Oanh P. Lam et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Sulfur as a selective ‘soft’ oxidant for catalytic methane conversion probed by experiment and theory

(2012) Qingjun Zhu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Synthesis and CO2 Insertion Reactivity of Allyluranium Metallocene Complexes

(2012) Christopher L. Webster et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Organothorium-Catalyzed Hydroalkoxylation/Cyclization of Alkynyl Alcohols. Scope, Mechanism, and Ancillary Ligand Effects

(2012) Stephen D. Wobser et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Diamine Bis(phenolate) as Supporting Ligands in Organoactinide(IV) Chemistry. Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Reactivity of Stable Dialkyl Derivatives

(2012) Elsa Mora et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Steric Effects in the Reductive Coupling of CO by Mixed-Sandwich Uranium(III) Complexes

(2012) Nikolaos Tsoureas et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Homologation and functionalization of carbon monoxide by a recyclable uranium complex

(2012) B. M. Gardner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Facile Conversion of CO/H2 into Methoxide at a Uranium(III) Center

(2011) Alistair S. P. Frey et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Carbon Dioxide Insertion into Uranium-Activated Dicarbonyl Complexes

(2011) Stephan J. Zuend et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Uranium-mediated activation of small molecules

(2011) Polly L. Arnold   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

New reactivity of the uranyl ion: ring opening polymerisation of epoxides

(2011) Robert J. Baker et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Molecular approaches to the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide

(2011) Colin Finn et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Reductive heterocoupling mediated by Cp*2U(2,2′-bpy)

(2011) Adil Mohammad et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Reductive coupling of carbon monoxide by U(iii) complexes—a computational study

(2011) Georgina Aitken et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Synthesis, structure, and catalytic activity of an organothorium hydride complex

(2011) Wenshan Ren et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS

Facile synthesis of poly(ether carbonate)s via copolymerization of CO2 and propylene oxide under combinatorial catalyst of rare earth ternary complex and double metal cyanide complex

(2011) Yanlei Dong et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

Functionalization of Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Disulfide Using a Stable Uranium(III) Alkyl Complex

(2011) Ellen M. Matson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Organoactinides Promote the Dimerization of Aldehydes: Scope, Kinetics, Thermodynamics, and Calculation Studies

(2011) Manab Sharma et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Small Molecule Activation by Uranium Tris(aryloxides): Experimental and Computational Studies of Binding of N2, Coupling of CO, and Deoxygenation Insertion of CO2under Ambient Conditions

(2011) Stephen M. Mansell et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Formation of Trivalent U–C, U–N, and U–S Bonds and Their Reactivity toward Carbon Dioxide and Acetone

(2011) Ellen M. Matson et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Insights into the mechanism of carbonate formation through reductive cleavage of carbon dioxide with low-valent uranium centers

(2010) Oanh P. Lam et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Catalysts for CO2/epoxide copolymerisation

(2010) Michael R. Kember et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

UIII-Induced Reductive Co-Coupling of NO and CO to Form UIV Cyanate and Oxo Derivates

(2010) Alistair S. P. Frey et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Recent developments in nonaqueous plutonium coordination chemistry

(2010) Andrew J. Gaunt et al.   COMPTES RENDUS CHIMIE

Thorium 2-pyridylamidinates: synthesis, structure and catalytic activity towards the cyclo-oligomerization of ε-caprolactone

(2010) Elena Rabinovich et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Organo-f-element catalysts for efficient and highly selective hydroalkoxylation and hydrothiolation

(2010) Charles J. Weiss et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

The Bis Metallacyclic Anion [U(N{SiMe3}2)(CH2SiMe2N{SiMe3})2]−

(2010) Olivier Bénaud et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Stereoselective Polymerization ofmeso-Lactide: Syndiotactic Polylactide by Heteroselective Initiators Based on Trivalent Metals

(2010) Jean-Charles Buffet et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Above-room-temperature ferroelectricity in a single-component molecular crystal

(2010) Sachio Horiuchi et al.   NATURE

Lanthanide- and Actinide-Mediated Terminal Alkyne Hydrothiolation for the Catalytic Synthesis of Markovnikov Vinyl Sulfides

(2010) Charles J. Weiss et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Insertion Reactivity of CO2, PhNCO, Me3CC≡N, and Me3CN≡C with the Uranium−Alkynyl Bonds in (C5Me5)2U(C≡CPh)2

(2010) William J. Evans et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Electrocatalytic CO2 Conversion to Oxalate by a Copper Complex

(2010) R. Angamuthu et al.   SCIENCE

Carbon monoxide coupling and functionalisation at a simple uranium coordination complex

(2010) Polly L. Arnold et al.   Chemical Science

Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters by an Enantiopure Heteroscorpionate Rare Earth Initiator

(2009) Antonio Otero et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis of polycaprolactone: a review

(2009) Marianne Labet et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Synthesis and Reactivity of a Silylalkyl Double Tuck-in Uranium Metallocene [(η5:η1-C5Me4SiMe2CH2)2U] and its Conversion to Bis(tethered) Metallocenes

(2009) William J. Evans et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Organoactinide-Mediated Hydrothiolation of Terminal Alkynes with Aliphatic, Aromatic, and Benzylic Thiols

(2009) Charles J. Weiss et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reductive Coupling of Six Carbon Monoxides by a Ditantalum Hydride Complex

(2009) Takahito Watanabe et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The Bond between CO and Cp′3U in Cp′3U(CO) Involves Back-bonding from the Cp′3U Ligand-Based Orbitals of π-Symmetry, where Cp′ Represents a Substituted Cyclopentadienyl Ligand

(2009) Laurent Maron et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

C3-Symmetric Lanthanide Tris(alkoxide) Complexes Formed by Preferential Complexation and Their Stereoselective Polymerization ofrac-Lactide

(2008) Polly L. Arnold et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Reductive disproportionation of carbon dioxide to carbonate and squarate products using a mixed-sandwich U(iii) complex

(2008) Owen T. Summerscales et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of a Charge-Separated Uranium Benzophenone Ketyl Radical Complex

(2008) Oanh P. Lam et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Organoactinides Promote the Tishchenko Reaction:  The Myth of Inactive Actinide−Alkoxo Complexes

(2008) Tamer Andrea et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanistic Studies on the Reductive Cyclooligomerisation of CO by U(III) Mixed Sandwich Complexes; the Molecular Structure of [(U(η-C8H6{SiiPr3-1,4}2)(η-Cp*)]2(μ-η1:η1-C2O2)

(2008) Alistair S. Frey et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Carbon Dioxide Activation with Sterically Pressured Mid- and High-Valent Uranium Complexes

(2008) Suzanne C. Bart et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Towards uranium catalysts

(2008) Alexander R. Fox et al.   NATURE

Theoretical Studies of the sp2versus sp3C−H Bond Activation Chemistry of 2-Picoline by (C5Me5)2An(CH3)2Complexes (An = Th, U)

(2008) Ping Yang et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Rare-Earth-Metal Mixed Hydride/Aryloxide Complexes Bearing Mono(cyclopentadienyl) Ligands. Synthesis, CO2Fixation, and Catalysis on Copolymerization of CO2with Cyclohexene Oxide

(2008) Dongmei Cui et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Biocompatible Initiators for Lactide Polymerization

(2008) Rachel Platel et al.   Polymer Reviews

Structural Characterization of Pu[N(SiMe3)2]3, a Synthetically Useful Nonaqueous Plutonium(III) Precursor

(2007) Andrew J. Gaunt et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY