Attempting to Reduce the Irreducible: Preparation of a Rare Paramagnetic Thorium Species
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Abstract
A bis-pyrrolide ligand containing a nonconjugated aromatic ring in the backbone was reacted with ThCl 4 (DME) 2, affording the corresponding η 6 -{1,3-[(2-C 4 H 3 N)(CH 3 ) 2 C] 2 C 6 H 4 }ThCl 3 ][Li(DME) 3 ] ( 1 ) complex. In this species, the π-bonding interaction of the actinide with the ring is probably induced by steric constraint. The bonding mode of the pyrrolide rings was switched from σ to π upon treatment of complex 1 with Et 3 Al. This reaction was also accompanied by deprotonation of the aromatic ring and formation of two similar compounds with the ring σ-bonded to the Th metal center. The two compounds {[{1,3-[(η 5 -2-C 4 H 3 N)(CH 3 ) 2 C] 2 C 6 H 4 }Th(μ-Cl-AlEt 2 ) 2 ](μ-Cl) 2 [{1,3-[(η 5 -2-C 4 H 3 N)(CH 3 ) 2 C]C 6 H 4 }Th] (μ-AlEt 2 )Cl]}·(C 7 H 8 ) 0.5 ( 2a ) and {[{1,3-[(η 5 -2-C 4 H 3 N)(CH 3 ) 2 C] 2 C 6 H 4 }ThCl(μ-Cl) 2 [Li(DME)] 2 ( 2b ) were isolated and fully characterized. The common feature among these two species is that the switching of bonding mode of the pyrrolide rings, resulting from the coordination of the aluminum residues, is accompanied by deprotonation of the central ring. Attempts to reduce 1 yielded the paramagnetic [{η 5 -1,3-[(η 5 -2-C 4 H 3 N)(CH 3 ) 2 C] 2 C 6 H 4 }ThK(μ-Cl) 3 ][Li(DME) 3 ] ( 3 ), which on the basis of the connectivity might be regarded as a rare case of Th(III). However, DFT calculation have elucidated the electronic structure of this species, which should be regarded as containing tetravalent Th bonded to the ligand radical anion. The spin density is mainly localized at the ring C atom, which is deformed and deviates from the planarity. Similar reductions carried out under slightly different reaction conditions afforded {η 6 -1,3-[(2-C 4 H 3 N)(CH 3 ) 2 C] 2 C 6 H 4 }Th{μ-η 5 -1,3-[(η 5 -2-C 4 H 3 N)(CH 3 ) 2 C] 2 C 6 H 5 }K(DME) 2 ( 4 ). In this complex the metal is surrounded by two ligands, one of which appears as having been partly hydrogenated at the central aromatic ring. Treatment of an in situ generated transient low-valent species with azobenzene as mild oxidizing agent resulted in reoxidation to a tetravalent thorium diphenylhydrazido species, [{η 6 -1,3-[(η 5 -2-C 4 H 3 N)(CH 3 ) 2 C] 2 C 6 H 4 }Th(μ - η 2 -PhNNPh)(μ-Cl)(Cl)Li(DME)][Li(DME) 3 ] ( 5 ).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.043 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".