Expanding the chemistry of U3+ reducing agents

The U3+ ion offers many opportunities for developing new actinide reaction chemistry. This review surveys the traditional non-aqueous U3+ reduction chemistry in the literature and summarizes recent attempts to combine U3+ reduction with ligand-based reductions to achieve multi-electron reduction with complexes of this ion. The purpose of this analysis is to better identify new possibilities for further expansion of the reduction chemistry of U3+. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.