Abstract
AbstractNitrogen has five valence electrons and can form a maximum of three shared electron-pair bonds to complete its octet, which suggests that its maximum bond order is three. With a joint anion photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum chemistry investigation, we report herein that nitrogen presents a quadruple bonding interaction with thorium in ThN. The quadruple Th≣N bond consists of two electron-sharing Th-N π bonds formed between the Th-6dxz/6dyz and N 2px/2py orbitals, one dative Th←N σ bond and one weak Th←N σ bonding interaction formed between Th-6dz2 and N 2s/2pz orbitals. The ThC molecule has also been investigated and proven to have a similar bonding pattern as ThN. Nonetheless, due to one singly occupied σ-bond, ThC is assigned a bond order of 3.5. Moreover, ThC has a longer bond length as well as a lower vibrational frequency in comparison with ThN.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Chemistry,Multidisciplinary
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