Convenient access to the anhydrous thorium tetrachloride complexes ThCl(4)(DME)(2), ThCl(4)(1,4-dioxane)(2) and ThCl(4)(THF)(3.5) using commercially available and inexpensive starting materials.
Cantat, Thibault; Scott, Brian L; Kiplinger, Jaqueline L; Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 46 (2010) 919–921; doi:10.1039/b923558b

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 Convenient access to the anhydrous thorium tetrachloride complexes
 ThCl(4)(DME)(2), ThCl(4)(1,4-dioxane)(2) and ThCl(4)(THF)(3.5) using
 commercially available and inexpensive starting materials.
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