Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.54, No.16, 8022-8028, 2015
Uranium Hydridoborates: Synthesis, Magnetism, and X-ray/Neutron Diffraction Structures
While uranium hydridoborate complexes containing the [BH4](-) moiety have been well-known in the literature for many years, species with functionalized borate centers remained considerably rare. We were now able to prepare several uranium hydridoborates (1-4) with amino-substituted borate moieties with high selectivity by smooth reaction of [Cp*2UMe(2)] (Cp* = CsMes) and [Cp'2UMe2] (Cp' = 1,2,4-tBu(3)C(3)H(2)) with the aminoborane H2BN(SiMe3)(2). A combination of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, deuteration experiments, magnetic SQUID measurements, and X-ray/neutron diffraction studies was used to verify the anticipated molecular structures and oxidation states of 1-4 and helped to establish a linear tridentate coordination mode of the borate anions.