The shortest Th–Th distance from a new type of quadruple bond

• Published in: Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP Vol. 19; no. 7; pp. 5070 - 5076
• Main Authors: Hu, Han-Shi, Kaltsoyannis, Nikolas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 15.02.2017
• Subjects: Actinides; Bonding; Chemical bonds; Donors (electronic); Electronics; Ligands; Mathematical analysis; Scalars

Compounds featuring unsupported metal–metal bonds between actinide elements remain highly sought after yet confined experimentally to inert gas matrix studies. Notwithstanding this paucity, actinide–actinide bonding has been the subject of extensive computational research. In this contribution, high...