Amidinate complexes of uranium and thorium have been synthesized and characterized using spectroscopy, crystallography, and cyclic voltammetry.  Amidinate ligands offer a large degree of steric and electronic tunability, enabling their usage as effective supporting ligands for actinides in various oxidation states.  Salt metathesis reactions of actinide amidinate complexes have been shown to provide an effective means of altering the functional groups around the uranium center without affecting the amidinate framework.  The redox behavior of uranium amidinate complexes has been investigated using chemical and electrochemical methods.<br/>

Synthesis and redox behavior of uranium amidinate complexes

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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