[Am(C5Me4H)3]: An Organometallic Americium Complex. Issue 34 (25th July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Goodwin, Conrad A. P.; Su, Jing; Albrecht‐Schmitt, Thomas E.; Blake, Anastasia V.; Batista, Enrique R.; Daly, Scott R.; Dehnen, Stefanie; Evans, William J.; Gaunt, Andrew J.; Kozimor, Stosh A.; Lichtenberger, Niels; Scott, Brian L.; Yang, Ping
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 58:Issue 34(2019)
• Page Start: 11695
• Page End: 11699
• Publication Date: 2019-07-25
• Subjects: actinides -- americium -- cyclopentadienyl ligands -- organometallic complexes -- structure elucidation; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201905225
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

Abstract: We report the small‐scale synthesis, isolated yield, single‐crystal X‐ray structure, 1 H NMR solution spectroscopy /solid‐state UV/Vis‐nIR spectroscopy, and density functional theory (DFT)/ab initio wave function theory calculations on an Am 3+ organometallic complex, [Am(C5 Me4 H)3 ] (1 ). This constitutes the first quantitative data on Am−C bonding in a molecular species. Abstract : Captain americium : The first structural characterization of an Am−C molecular interaction along with a suite of standard synthetic chemistry characterization techniques, including both 1 H NMR and solution UV/Vis‐NIR spectroscopy have been performed. Detailed theoretical models of the electronic structure show excellent agreement with experimental data.