Galley Shane S, Higgins Robert, Kiernicki John J, Lopez Lauren M, Walensky Justin R, Schelter Eric J, Zeller Matthias, Bart Suzanne C
H. C. Brown Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States.
P. Roy and Diana T. Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States.
Inorg Chem. 2023 Oct 2;62(39):15819-15823. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01957. Epub 2023 Sep 15.
A family of thorium complexes featuring the redox-noninnocent pyridinediimine ligand PDI was synthesized, including (PDI)ThCl (), (PDI)ThCl(THF) (), (PDI)ThCl(THF) () and [(PDI)Th(THF)] () Full characterization of these species shows that these complexes feature PDI in four different oxidation states. The electronic structures of these complexes have been explored using H NMR and electronic absorption spectroscopies, X-ray crystallography, and SQUID magnetometry where appropriate.