Triamidoamine thorium-arsenic complexes with parent arsenide, arsinidiide and arsenido structural motifs

Elizabeth P. Wildman, Gábor Balázs, Ashley J. Wooles, Manfred Scheer () and Stephen T. Liddle ()
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Elizabeth P. Wildman: School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester
Gábor Balázs: Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Regensburg
Ashley J. Wooles: School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester
Manfred Scheer: Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Regensburg
Stephen T. Liddle: School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester

Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Despite a major expansion of uranium–ligand multiple bond chemistry in recent years, analogous complexes involving other actinides (An) remain scarce. For thorium, under ambient conditions only a few multiple bonds to carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and chalcogenides are reported, and none to arsenic are known; indeed only two complexes with thorium–arsenic single bonds have been structurally authenticated, reflecting the challenges of stabilizing polar linkages at the large thorium ion. Here, we report thorium parent–arsenide (ThAsH2), –arsinidiides (ThAs(H)K and ThAs(H)Th) and arsenido (ThAsTh) linkages stabilized by a bulky triamidoamine ligand. The ThAs(H)K and ThAsTh linkages exhibit polarized-covalent thorium–arsenic multiple bonding interactions, hitherto restricted to cryogenic matrix isolation experiments, and the AnAs(H)An and AnAsAn linkages reported here have no precedent in f-block chemistry. 7s, 6d and 5f orbital contributions to the Th–As bonds are suggested by quantum chemical calculations, and their compositions unexpectedly appear to be tensioned differently compared to phosphorus congeners.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14769

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