Volume 122, Issue 19 pp. 3451-3453
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Synthesis and Properties of a Fifteen-Coordinate Complex: The Thorium Aminodiboranate [Th(H3BNMe2BH3)4]

Scott R. Daly

Scott R. Daly

School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Matthews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 (USA), Fax: (+1) 217-244-3186

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Paula M. B. Piccoli Dr.

Paula M. B. Piccoli Dr.

Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 (USA)

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Arthur J. Schultz Dr.

Arthur J. Schultz Dr.

Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 (USA)

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Tanya K. Todorova Dr.

Tanya K. Todorova Dr.

Department of Physical Chemistry, Sciences II, University of Geneva, 30, Quai Ernest Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland)

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Laura Gagliardi Prof.

Laura Gagliardi Prof.

University of Minnesota, Department of Chemistry, 207 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0431 (USA)

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Gregory S. Girolami Prof.

Gregory S. Girolami Prof.

School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Matthews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 (USA), Fax: (+1) 217-244-3186

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First published: 20 April 2010
Citations: 15

G.S.G. thanks the U.S. National Science Foundation (CHE 07-50422) and the PG Research Foundation for support of this work. We thank Scott R. Wilson and Teresa Prussak-Wieckowska for collecting the XRD data. Work at Argonne was supported by the US Department of Energy, BES-Materials Science, under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.

Graphical Abstract

Verrückt nach H-Atomen: Röntgen- und Neutronenbeugungsdaten für Einkristalle belegen, dass das Th-Zentrum in der Titelverbindung 1 (Th orange, B beige, N violett, C schwarz, H blau) Bindungen zu 15 H-Atomen eingeht. Somit ist 1 der erste kristallographisch charakterisierte Komplex mit einer Werner-Koordinationszahl von fünfzehn. DFT-Rechnungen sprechen dafür, dass 1 in der Gasphase eine vollsymmetrische 16-fach koordinierte Struktur einnimmt.

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