Uranium forms rare triple bond with carbon in newly isolated compound
Researchers have successfully synthesized a uranium Fischer-type carbyne, a compound featuring a rare triple bond between uranium and carbon. This discovery provides new insights into actinide chemistry and expands the potential for creating previously inaccessible heavy-element compounds.
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Advancing our understanding of uranium bonding helps chemists better compare actinides with transition metals, potentially leading to new synthetic strategies in material science.
by Enna Bartlett, University of Manchester
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Add as preferred source Color key: green, uranium; black, carbon; blue, nitrogen; orange, silicon; hydrogen atoms omitted for clarity. Credit: University of Manchester In a study published in Nature Chemistry , an international team of researchers from Germany and the U.K., including chemists from The University of Manchester, has synthesized and characterized what they describe as the first isolable uranium Fischer-type carbyne, a compound in which carbon forms an unusual triple-bond interaction with uranium.
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