Study on the Structure and Bonding Nature of Uranium Compounds Coordinated with Saturated Carbon
The synthesis of uranium compounds has become one of the hot fields in organometallic chemistry.Compared with transition metal compounds,the synthesis and isolation of uranium compounds is extremely challenging,especially for the ones bearing uranium-carbon bonds.Carbene has lone pair electrons that easily combine with the empty orbitals of uranium.However,the carbon of benzyl or alkyl groups has no lone pair of electrons,which makes it difficult to combine with uranium.With the understanding of the electronic structure and bonding properties of uranium,some progress has been made in the study of uranium compounds coordinated with saturated carbon.This review systematically summarizes the structures and bonding properties of different valence states uranium compounds.