Spectroscopic and Computational Evidence of Uranium Dihydrogen Complexes

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U onto the side-on dihydrogen ligand is crucial to complex formation, an unusual bonding situation for an actinide acid-base complex. The spectroscopic and computational results are compared to those reported for lanthanide metallocenes to yield insight into the nature of─and future possibilities for─f-element dihydrogen complexation.