Actinide metal amides uranium

The metals thorium and uranium (as with the chemistry in general of these elements) dominate actinide aryloxide chemistry. Synthetic strategies normally focus on the halides reacting with group 1 metal aryloxides or reaction of metal amides with phenols. An important piece of early work was the demonstrated interconversion of eight-coordinate [UMe4(dmpe)2] and [M(OPh)4(dmpe)2] (M = Th, U Table 6.20) by addition of phenol or MeLi to each substrate respectively. The reaction of the cyclometallated... 

The monochlorotris-silylamides, [(Me3Si)3N]3MCI, of the two most readily accessible actinide elements, thorium and uranium, have been prepared by reaction of three molar equivalents of sodium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide and the metal chloride in tetrahydrofuran. The thorium derivative is a colorless, diamagnetic, pentane soluble compound which is rtionomeric in the gas phase (by mass spectrometry) (19, 20). The tan uranium analogue is paramagnetic (yB = 2.8 B.M.) (20). 

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