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NATURE REVIEWS CHEMISTRY
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41570-016-0002
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK [EP/M010554/1, EP/K014714/1, EP/J018139/1]
- European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Network [CM1205]
- SCG Chemicals
- Trinity College, Oxford
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K014668/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/K014668/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Carbon oxygenates represent an increasingly important class of feedstock in the development of a sustainable chemical economy. Their catalytic transformation into value-added chemicals is a crucial target, because it would reduce our ties to fossil fuels and non-renewable resources. In this Review, we discuss the unique reactivity offered by actinide metal complexes with respect to s-, p- and d-block metals resulting from the chemical properties particular to these metals. This reactivity is governed by large ionic radii, high coordination numbers, kinetic lability, the involvement of f orbitals in bonding, and single-electron redox processes or sigma-bond metathesis, which are distinct from the oxidative addition and reductive elimination pathways commonly seen for catalysts derived from d-block metals. We conclude with a discussion of the current progress in the use of these complexes towards catalytic transformations of oxygenated hydrocarbons.
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