Uranium and thorium can activate chemical bonds, making them useful in catalysis, and here Gong and Andrews use density functional theory and matrix infrared spectroscopy to understand what types of reaction products can be obtained under different conditions.
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Matrix infrared spectroscopic and density functional theoretical investigations on thorium and uranium atom reactions with dimethyl ether
Yu Gong and Lester Andrews
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10725A
