Steric crowding can be coupled with a UIII reduction to make the complex [(C5Me5)3U] a formal three-electron reductant in its reaction with C8H8, which generates a product, 1, containing a bridging nonplanar C8H82− ligand [Eq. (1)].
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Evans et al. (2000) studied this question.