Publications by Fang-Che Hsueh

Designing Complexes of f-elements Capable of Multielectron Transfer Reactivity

Over the past few decades, low oxidation state f-element molecular complexes, including those of lanthanide, uranium, and thorium, have demonstrated high reactivity towards small molecules such as N2 and CO2 due to their unique chemical properties. However ...

EPFL2025

Two-Electron Redox Reactivity of Thorium Supported by Redox-Active Tripodal Frameworks

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Damien Wen Chen, Fang-Che Hsueh

The high stability of the + IVoxidation state limits thorium redox reactivity. Here we report the synthesis and the redox reactivity of two Th(IV) complexes supported by the arene-tethered tris(siloxide) tripodal ligands [(KOSiR2Ar)3-arene)]. The two-elect ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

Siloxide tripodal ligands as a scaffold for stabilizing lanthanides in the +4 oxidation state

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Ivica Zivkovic, Fang-Che Hsueh

Synthetic strategies to isolate molecular complexes of lanthanides, other than cerium, in the +4 oxidation state remain elusive, with only four complexes of Tb(iv) isolated so far. Herein, we present a new approach for the stabilization of Tb(iv) using a s ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Synthesis, structure and redox properties of single-atom bridged diuranium complexes supported by aryloxides

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Ivica Zivkovic, Luciano Barluzzi, Fang-Che Hsueh

Single-atom (group 15 and group 16 anions) bridged dimetallic complexes of low oxidation state uranium provide a convenient route to implement multielectron transfer and promote magnetic communication in uranium chemistry, but remain extremely rare. Here w ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2024

Isolation and redox reactivity of cerium complexes in four redox states

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Fang-Che Hsueh

The chemistry of lanthanides is limited to one electron transfer reactions due to the difficulty of accessing multiple oxidation states. Here we report that a redox-active ligand combining three siloxides with an arene ring in a tripodal ligand can stabili ...

2023

Reactivity of Multimetallic Thorium Nitrides Generated by Reduction of Thorium Azides

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Luciano Barluzzi, Fang-Che Hsueh

Thorium nitrides are likely intermediates in the reported cleavage and functionalization of dinitrogen by molecular thorium complexes and are attractive compounds for the study of multiple bond formation in f-element chemistry, but only one example of thor ...

2022

Synthesis, structure, and reactivity of uranium(VI) nitrides

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Luciano Barluzzi, Fang-Che Hsueh

Uranium nitride compounds are important molecular analogues of uranium nitride materials such as UN and UN2 which are effective catalysts in the Haber-Bosch synthesis of ammonia, but the synthesis of molecular nitrides remains a challenge and studies of th ...

2021