Department of Chemistry, Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cologne, Greinstrasse 6, 50939 Cologne, Germany.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States.
Inorg Chem. 2023 Feb 13;62(6):2513-2517. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c04338. Epub 2023 Jan 27.
Two oxo-containing neptunium(IV) -butoxides, [NpO(OBu)] () and [KNpO(OBu)] (), were synthesized using the ligand substitution between neptunium(IV) silylamides and HOBu, whereas the salt metathesis between [NpCl(DME)] (DME = dimethoxyethane) and various amounts of LiOBu resulted in the formation of oxo-free alkoxides [Np(OBu)(py)] (; py = pyridine) and [Li(THF)][Np(OBu)] (; THF = tetrahydrofuran). These complexes are the first structurally characterized neptunium(IV) alkoxides using single-crystal X-ray diffraction and solid-state absorption spectroscopy, which provide data for the development of anhydrous metal-organic neptunium chemistry.