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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 11, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-14221-y
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K024000/1, EP/M027015/1, EP/P001386/1]
- European Research Council [CoG612724]
- Royal Society [UF110005]
- Humboldt Foundation
- CalMip
- National EPSRC UK EPR Facility
- University of Manchester
- COST Action [CM1006]
- Leverhulme Trust UK
- EPSRC [EP/P001386/1, EP/K024000/2, EP/M027015/1, EP/K024000/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Despite their importance as mechanistic models for heterogeneous Haber Bosch ammonia synthesis from dinitrogen and dihydrogen, homogeneous molecular terminal metal-nitrides are notoriously unreactive towards dihydrogen, and only a few electron-rich, low-coordinate variants demonstrate any hydrogenolysis chemistry. Here, we report hydrogenolysis of a terminal uranium(V)-nitride under mild conditions even though it is electron-poor and not low-coordinate. Two divergent hydrogenolysis mechanisms are found; direct 1,2-dihydrogen addition across the uranium(V)-nitride then H-atom 1,1-migratory insertion to give a uranium(III)-amide, or with trimesitylborane a Frustrated Lewis Pair (FLP) route that produces a uranium(IV)-amide with sacrificial trimesitylborane radical anion. An isostructural uranium(VI)-nitride is inert to hydrogenolysis, suggesting the 5f(1) electron of the uranium(V)-nitride is not purely non-bonding. Further FLP reactivity between the uranium(IV)-amide, dihydrogen, and triphenylborane is suggested by the formation of ammonia-triphenylborane. A reactivity cycle for ammonia synthesis is demonstrated, and this work establishes a unique marriage of actinide and FLP chemistries. Despite their importance as mechanistic models for Haber Bosch ammonia synthesis from N-2 and H-2, high oxidation state terminal metal-nitrides are notoriously unreactive towards H-2. Here, the authors report hydrogenolysis of a uranium(V)-nitride, which can occur directly or by Frustrated Lewis Pair chemistry with a borane ancillary.
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