White phosphorus activation by a Th(III) complex

Formanuik, Alasdair and Ortu, Fabrizio and Beekmeyer, Reece and Kerridge, Andrew and Adams, Ralph and Mills, David (2016) White phosphorus activation by a Th(III) complex. Dalton Transactions, 45 (6). pp. 2390-2393. ISSN 1477-9226

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Abstract

[Th(Cp′′)3] (Cp′′ = {C5H3(SiMe3)2-1,3}) activates P4 to give [{Th(Cp′′)3}2(μ–η1:η1-P4)] (1), which has an unprecedented cyclo-P4 binding mode. DFT studies were performed on a model of 1 to probe the bonding in this system.