title: Neptunium and plutonium complexes with a sterically encumbered triamidoamine (TREN) scaffold.
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.
authors.affiliation: Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA. gaunt@lanl.gov.
authors.forename: Jessie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA. gaunt@lanl.gov.
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Gaunt
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. steve.liddle@manchester.ac.uk.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: King
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. steve.liddle@manchester.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Stephen T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Liddle
authors.affiliation: Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA. gaunt@lanl.gov.
authors.forename: Sean D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Reilly
authors.affiliation: Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
authors.forename: Brian L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. steve.liddle@manchester.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Ashley J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Wooles