CYCLOPENTADIENYL ACTINIDE COMPLEXES - BONDING AND ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE

Organoactinoid complexes are very rare, and because of difficulties in their handling are often limited to the metals Th and U. Nevertheless similarities and differences between the numerous d‐element and f‐element complexes emerge, in this review particularly with regard to the bonding situations, which have been studied with the help of modern computational methods. An especially aesthetic organoactinoid complex, which has no analogues in the transition‐metals, is [Cp4An] 1 (An = actinoid). (Figure Presented.)