Progress in molecular uranium-nitride chemistry

•Uranium nitride matrix isolation experiments reviewed.•Aspects of uranium nitride materials chemistry and applications reviewed.•Molecular bridging uranium nitrides reviewed.•Photochemical approaches to terminal uranium nitrides reviewed.•Molecular terminal uranium nitrides reviewed.

The coordination, organometallic, and materials chemistry of uranium nitride has long been an important facet of actinide chemistry. Following matrix isolation experiments and computational characterisation, molecular, solution-based uranium chemistry has developed significantly in the last decade or so culminating most recently in the isolation of the first examples of long-sought terminal uranium nitride linkages. Herein, the field is reviewed with an emphasis on well-defined molecular species.

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