Actinide-lanthanide single electron metal-metal bond formed in mixed-valence di-metallofullerenes

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS(2023)

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Understanding metal-metal bonding involving f-block elements has been a challenging goal in chemistry. Here we report a series of mixed-valence di-metallofullerenes, ThDy@C 2 n (2 n = 72, 76, 78, and 80) and ThY@C 2 n (2 n = 72 and 78), which feature single electron actinide-lanthanide metal-metal bonds, characterized by structural, spectroscopic and computational methods. Crystallographic characterization unambiguously confirmed that Th and Y or Dy are encapsulated inside variably sized fullerene carbon cages. The ESR study of ThY@ D 3 h (5)-C 78 shows a doublet as expected for an unpaired electron interacting with Y, and a SQUID magnetometric study of ThDy@ D 3 h (5)-C 78 reveals a high-spin ground state for the whole molecule. Theoretical studies further confirm the presence of a single-electron bonding interaction between Y or Dy and Th, due to a significant overlap between hybrid spd orbitals of the two metals.
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bond,actinide-lanthanide,metal-metal,mixed-valence,di-metallofullerenes
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