Chemical Communications 2007-03-14

Actinide-mediated coupling of 4-fluorobenzonitrile: synthesis of an eight-membered thorium(IV) tetraazametallacycle.

Eric J Schelter, David E Morris, Brian L Scott, Jaqueline L Kiplinger

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) (10) , 1029-31, (2007)

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Abstract

An eight-membered thorium(IV) tetraazamacrocycle is produced by the sequential, metal-mediated coupling of four equivalents of 4-fluorobenzonitrile; its formation is consistent with the involvement of an imido intermediate, generated from a thorium ketimide complex.


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