Facile access to pentavalent uranium organometallics: One-electron oxidation of uranium(IV) imido complexes with copper(I) salts

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 129, Issue 39, 2007, Pages 11914-11915

  Graves, Christopher R ^a   Scott, Brian L ^a   Morris, David E ^a   Kiplinger, Jaqueline L ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER DERIVATIVE; METAL DERIVATIVE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; URANIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; OXIDATION KINETICS; POTENTIOMETRY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REACTION ANALYSIS; SOLID STATE; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34848903907     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja074889w     Document Type: Article

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