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

Jessie L Brown; Andrew J Gaunt; David M King; Stephen T Liddle; Sean D Reilly; Brian L Scott; Ashley J Wooles

doi:10.1039/c6cc01656a

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

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Apr 7;52(31):5428-31. doi: 10.1039/c6cc01656a.

Authors

Jessie L Brown¹, Andrew J Gaunt¹, David M King², Stephen T Liddle², Sean D Reilly¹, Brian L Scott³, Ashley J Wooles²

Affiliations

¹ Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA. [email protected].
² School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. [email protected].
³ Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.

PMID: 27009799
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc01656a

Abstract

The syntheses and characterisation of isostructural neptunium(iv) and plutonium(iv) complexes [An(IV)(TREN(TIPS))(Cl)] [An = Np, Pu; TREN(TIPS) = {N(CH2CH2NSiPr(i)3)3}(3-)] are reported, along with the demonstration that they are likely reduced to the corresponding neptunium(iii) and plutonium(iii) products [An(III)(TREN(TIPS))]; this chemistry provides new platforms from which to target a plethora of unprecedented molecular functionalities in transuranic chemistry and the neptunium(iv) molecule is the first structurally characterised neptunium(iv)-amide complex.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't