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NATURE CHEMISTRY
卷 4, 期 8, 页码 668-674出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.1392
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- University of Edinburgh
- EaStCHEM
- European Research Council
- Universite Paul Sabatier
- CNRS
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H004823/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/H004823/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Transition-metal-arene complexes such as bis(benzene)chromium Cr(eta(6)-C6H6)(2) are historically important to d-orbital bonding theory and have modern importance in organic synthesis, catalysis and organic spintronics. In investigations of f-block chemistry, however, arenes are invariably used as solvents rather than ligands. Here, we show that simple uranium complexes UX3 (X = aryloxide, amide) spontaneously disproportionate, transferring an electron and X-ligand, allowing the resulting UX2 to bind and reduce arenes, forming inverse sandwich molecules [X2U(mu-eta(6):eta(6)-arene)UX2] and a UX4 by-product. Calculations and kinetic studies suggest a 'cooperative small-molecule activation' mechanism involving spontaneous arene reduction as an X-ligand is transferred. These mild reaction conditions allow functionalized arenes such as arylsilanes to be incorporated. The bulky UX3 are also inert to reagents such as boranes that would react with the traditional harsh reaction conditions, allowing the development of a new in situ arene C-H bond functionalization methodology converting C-H to C-B bonds.
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