Dioxygen reacts with metal-carbon bonds in thorium dialkyls to produce bis(alkoxides).
Settineri, Nicholas S.; Shiau, Angela A.; Arnold, John; Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) 48 (2019) 5569–5573; doi:10.1039/c9dt00811j

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 Dioxygen reacts with metal-carbon bonds in thorium dialkyls to produce
 bis(alkoxides).
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