1 SUPPORTING INFORMATION FOR Phenylsilane as a safe, versatile alternative to hydrogen for the synthesis of actinide hydrides Justin K. Pagano, a,b Jacquelyn M. Dorhout, a,c Rory Waterman, b Kenneth R. Czerwinski, c and Jaqueline L. Kiplinger a, * a Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop J514, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA b Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Cook Physical Sciences Building, Burlington, VT 05405, USA c Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA E-mail: kiplinger@lanl.gov; Fax: +1-505-667-9905; Tel: +1-505-665-9553 Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for ChemComm. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015