Tris-(o-benzonitrile)amine serves as a convenient starting material for the synthesis of tris-ketimine ligands capable of tridentate coordination.  These scaffolds are accessed via arylation or alkylation of nitrile functional groups with aryllithium and alkyllithium reagents.  Addition of the neutral tris-ketimine ligands to transition metal halides and actinide halides results in new coordination compounds.  The redox activity of the neutral tris-ketimine ligands and the transition metal coordination compounds supported by these scaffolds will be presented.  Furthermore, efforts towards the deprotonation of the neutral tris-ketimine ligands, and instillation of transition metals and actinides into the trianionic pocket will be presented.

Actinide and transition metal complexes supported by the tridentate tris(ketimine)amine ligands

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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