<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tsoureas, Nikolaos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vagiakos, Ioannis</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Recent Advances in Low Valent Thorium and Uranium Chemistry</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Inorganics</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">actinide</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">low valent</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">organometallic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">small molecule activation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">thorium</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Uranium</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2024</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2024</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The synthesis, isolation, and characterisation of well-defined low-valent actinide complexes are reviewed with a main focus on compounds featuring uranium and thorium metal centres in formal oxidation states ≤ +3. The importance of the ligand environment in enabling access to these highly reactive species, as well as its influence on ground state electronic configurations and their reactivity, are emphasised. Furthermore, we highlight cyclic voltammetry (C.V.) studies as a more widely used method that can guide the synthesis of these highly reducing species.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11</style></issue></record></records></xml>