Thorium complexes possessing expanded ring N-heterocyclic iminato ligands: Synthesis and applications

Article abstract of DOI:10.1039/c7dt02126g

Six and seven membered N-heterocyclic iminato ligands (L) are introduced allowing access a new class of Th(iv) complexes of the type Cp?₂Th(L)(CH₃). These complexes were studied in the Tishchenko reaction. Stoichiometric reactions together with kinetic and thermodynamic studies permit us to propose a plausible mechanism.