Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Actinide chemistry

A tale of two nitrides

Nature Chemistry volume 2, pages 705–706 (2010)Cite this article

Subjects

The first thing that comes to mind about uranium is certainly not its similarity to iron. Chemists have now shown that the two have a lot in common.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Figure 1: Analogy between iron and uranium fragments that contain multiple bonds to light elements.

References

  1. Thomson, R. K. et al. Nature Chem. 2, 723–729 10.1038/nchem.705(2010).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Brennan, J. G. & Andersen, R. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 107, 514–516 (1985).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Arney, D. S. J. & Burns, C. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117, 9448–9460 (1995).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Korobkov, I., Gambarotta, S. & Yap, G. P. A. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 41, 3433–3436 (2002).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Evans, W. J., Kozimor, S. A. & Ziller, J. W. Science 309, 1835–1838 (2005).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Fox, A. R. & Cummins, C. C . J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 5716–5717 (2009).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Fox, A. R., Arnold, P. L. & Cummins, C. C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 3250–3251 (2010).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Nocton, G., Pecaut, J. & Mazzanti, M. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47, 3040–3042 (2008).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Kalina, D. G., Marks, T. J. & Wachter, W. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 99, 3877–3879 (1977).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Bruno, J. W. et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 104, 1860–1869 (1982).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Vogel, C. et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47, 2681–2684 (2008).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. Scepaniak, J. J. et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 10515–10517 (2008).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Kozimor, S. A . et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 12125–121367 (2009).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Diaconescu, P. L., Arnold, P. L., Baker, T. A., Mindiola, D. J. & Cummins C. C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 6108–6109 (2000).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Paula Diaconescu is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, California, USA. pld@chem.ucla.edu,

    Paula Diaconescu

Authors
  1. Paula Diaconescu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Diaconescu, P. A tale of two nitrides. Nature Chem 2, 705–706 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.812

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.812

This article is cited by

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing