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Romeu JGF, Hunt ARE, de Melo GF, Peterson KA, Dixon DA. Energetic and Electronic Properties of UO 0/± and UF 0/±. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:5586-5604. [PMID: 38954748 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c02845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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High-level electronic structure calculations were conducted to examine the bonding and spectroscopic properties of the UO0/± and UF0/± diatomic molecules. The low-lying Ω states were described by using multireference SO-CASPT2 calculations. The adiabatic electronic affinity (AEA), adiabatic ionization energy (IE), and bond dissociation energy (BDE) were calculated at the Feller-Peterson-Dixon (FPD) level. The ground state of UO is predicted to be 5I4, and that of UF is 4I9/2. The calculated AEAs of UO and UF are 1.123 and 0.453 eV, respectively, and the corresponding IEs are 5.976 and 6.278 eV. The BDE of UO (749.5 kJ/mol) is predicted to be considerably higher than that of UF (627.2 kJ/mol), and both are higher than those predicted for UB, UC, and UN. NBO calculations show strong ionic character for the ground states of UO and UF and bond orders that range from 2 to 3 and from 1 to 2, respectively. Comparisons of the calculated properties to those of the series comprising UB, UC, and UN diatomic molecules are given.
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- João G F Romeu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4630, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4630, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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Dutra FR, Vasiliu M, Gomez AN, Xia D, Dixon DA. Prediction of Redox Potentials for U, Np, Pu, and Am in Aqueous Solution. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:5612-5626. [PMID: 38959054 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c02902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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The redox properties of the actinides in aqueous solution are important for fuel production/reprocessing and understanding the environmental impact of nuclear waste. The redox potentials for U, Np, Pu, and Am in oxidation states from 0 up to VII (as appropriate) in aqueous solutions have been predicted at the density functional theory level with the B3LYP functional, Stuttgart small core pseudopotential basis sets for the actinides, and explicit (30H2O molecules)/implicit treatment of the aqueous solvent using the self-consistent reaction field COSMO and SMD approaches for the implicit solvation. The predictions of the structural parameters of clusters incorporating first and second solvation shells are consistent with the available experimental data. Our results are typically within 0.2 V of the available experimental data using two explicit solvation shells with an implicit solvent model. The use of the PW91 functional substantially improved the prediction of the Pu(VI/V) redox couple. The redox couples for An(VI/IV) and An(V/IV) which involve the addition of protons and removal of the actinyl oxygens led to slightly larger differences from an experiment. The An(IV/0) and An(III/0) couples were reliably predicted with our approach. Predictions of the unknown An(II/I) redox potentials were negative, consistent with expectations, and predictions for unknown An(VII/VI), An(III/II), and An(II/0) redox couples improve prior estimates.
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- Felipe R Dutra
- Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Barão Geraldo, P.O. Box 6154, Campinas 13083-970, São Paulo, Brazil
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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Bubas AR, Kafle A, Stevenson BC, Armentrout PB. The bond energy of UN+: Guided ion beam studies of the reactions of U+ with N2 and NO. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:164305. [PMID: 38647300 DOI: 10.1063/5.0204090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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A guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer was used to study the reactions of U+ with N2 and NO. Reaction cross sections were measured over a wide range of energy for both systems. In each reaction, UN+ is formed by an endothermic process, thereby enabling the direct measurement of the threshold energy and determination of the UN+ bond dissociation energy. For the reaction of U+ + N2, a threshold energy (E0) of 4.02 ± 0.11 eV was measured, leading to D0 (UN+) = 5.73 ± 0.11 eV. The reaction of U+ + NO yields UO+ through an exothermic, barrierless process that proceeds with 94 ± 23% efficiency at the lowest energy. Analysis of the endothermic UN+ cross section in this reaction provides E0 = 0.72 ± 0.11 eV and, therefore, D0 (UN+) = 5.78 ± 0.11 eV. Averaging the values obtained from both reactions, we report D0 (UN+) = 5.76 ± 0.13 eV as our best value (uncertainty of two standard deviations). Combined with precise literature values for the ionization energies of U and UN, we also derive D0 (UN) = 5.86 ± 0.13 eV. Both bond dissociation energies agree well with high-level theoretical treatments in the literature. The formation of UN+ in reaction of U+ with NO also exhibits a considerable increase in reaction probability above ∼3 eV. Theory suggests that this may be consistent with the formation of UN+ in excited quintet spin states, which we hypothesize are dynamically favored because the number of 5f electrons in reactants and products is conserved.
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- Amanda R Bubas
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S 1400 E Rm 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S 1400 E Rm 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S 1400 E Rm 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S 1400 E Rm 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, USA
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Shaaban T, Réal F, Maurice R, Vallet V. Stability of the protactinium(V) mono-oxo cation probed by first-principle calculations. Chemistry 2024:e202304068. [PMID: 38240195 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202304068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
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This study explores the distinctive behavior of protactinium (Z=91) within the actinide series. In contrast to neighboring elements like uranium or plutonium, protactinium in the pentavalent state diverges by not forming the typical dioxo protactinyl moiety PaO2 + in aqueous phase. Instead, it manifests as a monooxo PaO3+ cation or a Pa5+ . Employing first-principle calculations with implicit and explicit solvation, we investigate two stoichiometrically equivalent neutral complexes: PaO(OH)2 (X)(H2 O) and Pa(OH)4 (X), where X represents various monodentate and bidentate ligands. Calculating the Gibbs free energy for the reaction PaO(OH)2 (X)(H2 O)→Pa(OH)4 (X), we find that the PaO(OH)2 (X)(H2 O) complex is stabilized with Cl- , Br- , I- , NCS- , NO3 - , and SO4 2- ligands, while it is not favored with OH- , F- , and C2 O4 2- ligands. Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules (QTAIM) and Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) methods reveal the Pa mono-oxo bond as a triple bond, with significant contributions from the 5f and 6d shells. Covalency of the Pa mono-oxo bond increases with certain ligands, such as Cl- , Br- , I- , NCS- , and NO3 - . These findings elucidate protactinium's unique chemical attributes and provide insights into the conditions supporting the stability of relevant complexes.
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- Tamara Shaaban
- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes) -, UMR 6226, F-35000, Rennes, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, F-59000, Lille, France
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Bubas AR, Zhang WJ, Armentrout PB. A guided ion beam investigation of UO2+ thermodynamics and f orbital participation: Reactions of U+ + CO2, UO+ + O2, and UO+ + CO. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:244305. [PMID: 38149740 DOI: 10.1063/5.0183836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 12/28/2023] Open
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A guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer was employed to study the reactions of U+ + CO2, UO+ + O2, and the reverse of the former, UO+ + CO. Reaction cross sections as a function of kinetic energy over about a three order of magnitude range were studied for all systems. The reaction of U+ + CO2 proceeds to form UO+ + CO with an efficiency of 118% ± 24% as well as generating UO2+ + C and UCO+ + O. The reaction of UO+ + O2 forms UO2+ in an exothermic, barrierless process and also results in the collision-induced dissociation of UO+ to yield U+. In the UO+ + CO reaction, the formation of UO2+ in an endothermic process is the dominant reaction, but minor products of UCO+ + O and U+ + (O + CO) are also observed. Analysis of the kinetic energy dependences observed provides the bond energies, D0(U+-O) = 7.98 ± 0.22 and 8.05 ± 0.14 eV, D0(U+-CO) = 0.73 ± 0.13 eV, and D0(OU+-O) = 7.56 ± 0.12 eV. The values obtained for D0(U+-O) and D0(OU+-O) agree well with the previously reported literature values. To our knowledge, this is the first experimental measurement of D0(U+-CO). An analysis of the oxide bond energies shows that participation of 5f orbitals leads to a substantial increase in the thermodynamic stability of UO2+ relative to ThO2+ and especially transition metal dioxide cations.
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- Amanda R Bubas
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S 1400 E Rm 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S 1400 E Rm 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S 1400 E Rm 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, USA
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Lontchi EM, Vasiliu M, Dixon DA. Hydrolysis Reactions of the High Oxidation State Dimers Th 2O 4, Pa 2O 5, U 2O 6, and Np 2O 6. A Computational Study. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:6732-6748. [PMID: 37549315 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c03455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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The energetics of the hydrolysis reactions for high oxidation states of the dimeric actinide species Th2IVO4, Pa2VO5, and U2VIO6 were calculated at the CCSD(T) level and those for triplet Np2VIO6 at the B3LYP level. Hydrolysis is initiated by the formation of a Lewis acid/base adduct with H2O (physisorbed product), followed by a proton transfer to form a dihydroxide molecule (chemisorbed product); this process was repeated until the initial actinide oxide is fully hydrolyzed. For Th2O4, hydrolysis (chemisorption) by the initial and subsequent H2O molecules prefers proton transfer to terminal oxo groups before the bridge oxo groups. The overall Th2O4 hydration pathway is exothermic with chemisorbed products preferred over the physisorption products, and the fully hydrolyzed Th2(OH)8 can form exothermically. Hydrolysis of Pa2O5 forms isomers of similar energies with no initial preference for bridge or terminal hydroxy groups. The most exothermic hydrolysis product for Pa is Pa2O(OH)8 and the most stable species is Pa2O(OH)8(H2O). Hydrolysis of U2O6 and Np2O6 with strong [O═An═O]2+ actinyl groups occurs first at the bridging oxygens rather than at the terminal oxo groups. The U2O6 and Np2O6 pathways predict hydrated products to be more favored than hydrolyzed products, as more H2O molecules are added. The stability of the U and Np clusters is predicted to decrease with increasing number of hydroxyl groups. The most stable species on the hydration reaction coordinate for U and Np is An2O3(OH)6(H2O).
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- Eddy M Lontchi
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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Lontchi E, Mason MM, Vasiliu M, Dixon DA. Prediction of the structures and heats of formation of MO 2, MO 3, and M 2O 5 for M = V, Nb, Ta, Pa. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:8355-8368. [PMID: 36912479 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp00380a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Structures for the mono-, di-, and tri-bridge isomers of M2O5 as well as those for the MO2 and MO3 fragments for M = V, Nb, Ta, and Pa were optimized at the density functional theory (DFT) level. Single point CCSD(T) calculations extrapolated to the complete basis set (CBS) limit at the DFT geometries were used to predict the energetics. The lowest energy dimer isomer was the di-bridge for M = V and Nb and the tri-bridge for M = Ta and Pa. The di-bridge isomers were predicted to be composed of MO2+ and MO3- fragments, whereas the mono- and tri-bridge are two MO2+ fragments linked by an O2-. The heats of formation of M2O5 dimers, as well as MO2 and MO3 neutral and ionic species were predicted using the Feller-Peterson-Dixon (FPD) approach. The heats of formation of the MF5 species were calculated to provide additional benchmarks. Dimerization energies to form the M2O5 dimers are predicted to become more negative going down group 5 and range from -29 to -45 kcal mol-1. The ionization energies (IEs) for VO2 and TaO2 are essentially the same at 8.75 eV whereas the IEs for NbO2 and PaO2 are 8.10 and 6.25 eV, respectively. The predicted adiabatic electron affinities (AEAs) range from 3.75 eV to 4.45 eV for the MO3 species and vertical detachment energies from 4.21 to 4.59 eV for MO3-. The calculated MO bond dissociation energies increase from 143 kcal mol-1 for M = V to ∼170 kcal mol-1 for M = Nb and Ta to ∼200 kcal mol-1 for M = Pa. The M-O bond dissociation energies are all similar ranging from 97 to 107 kcal mol-1. Natural bond analysis provided insights into the types of chemical bonds in terms of their ionic character. Pa2O5 is predicted to behave like an actinyl species dominated by the interactions of approximately linear PaO2+ groups.
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- Eddy Lontchi
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0336, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0336, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0336, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0336, USA.
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Rockow S, Bubas AR, Krauel SP, Stevenson BC, Armentrout PB. Thermochemistry of uranium sulfide cations: guided ion beam and theoretical studies of reactions of U + and US + with CS 2 and collision-induced dissociation of US +. Mol Phys 2023. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2023.2175595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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- Sara Rockow
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hong J, Han C, Fei Z, Tang Y, Liu Y, Xu HG, Wang M, Liu H, Xiong XG, Dong C. The additional nitrogen atom breaks the uranyl structure: a combined photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretical study of NUO 2. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:4794-4802. [PMID: 36692210 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp05544a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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We report a joint photoelectron spectroscopic and relativistic quantum chemistry study on gaseous NUO2-. The electron affinity (EA) of the neutral NUO2 molecule is reported for the first time with a value of 2.602(28) eV. The U-O and U-N stretching vibrational modes for the ground state and the first excited state are observed for NUO2. The geometric and electronic structures of both the anions and the corresponding neutrals are investigated by relativistic quantum chemistry calculations to interpret the photoelectron spectra and to provide insights into the nature of the chemical bonding. Both the ground state of the anion and neutral are calculated to be planar structures with C2v symmetry. Unlike the "T"-shape structure of UO3 which has a quasi-linear O-U-O angle, both the ground-state geometries of the anion and neutral have O-U-O bond angles of around 90°. The significant contraction of the O-U-O bond angle indicates the strong interaction between the U and N atoms compared with the "additional" oxygen in UO3. The chemical bonding calculation indicates that multiple bonding of U(VI) can occur in NUO2- and NUO2, and the UVI-N bond is significantly more covalent than the U-O bond. The current experimental and theoretical results reveal the difference between the U-N and U-O bond in the unified molecular system, and expand our understanding of the bonding capacities of actinide elements with the nitrogen atom.
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- Jing Hong
- Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, P. R. China. .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Key Lab of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, Department of Chemistry, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, P. R. China.
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Yankuang New Energy R&D Innovation Centre, Shandong Energy Group Co., LTD, China
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- Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, P. R. China.
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- Sino-French Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 519082, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, P. R. China.
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Wang B, Ye S, Zhang SY, Fang HL, Zhang YF, Xia CJ, Chen WJ. Reactions of Thorium Oxide Clusters with Water: The Effects of Oxygen Content. Chemphyschem 2022; 24:e202200701. [PMID: 36454657 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Thorium oxide has many important applications in industry. In this article, theoretical calculations have been carried out to explore the hydrolysis reactions of the ThOn (n=1-3) clusters. The reaction mechanisms of the O-deficient ThO and the O-rich ThO3 are compared with the stoichiometric ThO2 . The theoretical results show good agreement with the prior experiments. It is shown that the hydrolysis mainly occurred on the singlet potential surface. The overall reactions consist of two hydrolysis steps which are all favourable in energy. The effects of oxygen content on the hydrolysis are elucidated. Interestingly, among them, the peroxo group O2 2- in ThO3 is converted to the HOO- ligand, behaving like the terminal O2- in the hydrolysis which is transformed into the HO- groups. In addition, natural bond orbital (NBO) analyses were employed to further understand the bonding of the pertinent species and to interpret the differences in hydrolysis.
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- Bin Wang
- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350108, P. R. China
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- Department of Criminal Science and Technology, Hunan Police Academy, Changsha, 410138, P. R. China
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- Department of Material Chemistry, College of Chemical Engineering and Material, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou, Fujian, 362000, P. R. China
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Zhang C, Cheng L. Route to Chemical Accuracy for Computational Uranium Thermochemistry. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:6732-6741. [PMID: 36206308 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Benchmark spinor-based relativistic coupled-cluster calculations for the ionization energies of the uranium atom, the uranium monoxide molecule (UO), and the uranium dioxide molecule (UO2) and for the bond dissociation energies of UO and UO2 are reported. The accuracy of these calculations in the treatments of relativistic, electron-correlation, and basis-set effects is analyzed. The intrinsic convergence of the computed results and the favorable comparison with the experimental values demonstrate the unique applicability of the spinor representation of quantum-chemical methods to open-shell uranium-containing atomic and molecular species with uranium oxidation states ranging from U(0) to U(V).
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- Chaoqun Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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Benedek Z, Timár P, Szilvási T, Barcza G. Sensitivity of coupled cluster electronic properties on the reference determinant: Can Kohn-Sham orbitals be more beneficial than Hartree-Fock orbitals? J Comput Chem 2022; 43:2103-2120. [PMID: 36200186 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Coupled cluster calculations are traditionally performed over Hartree-Fock reference orbitals (HF-CC methodology). However, in the literature it has been repeatedly raised whether the use of a Kohn-Sham reference (KS-CC methodology) might result in improved performance relative to HF-CC. In the present study, we re-examine the relation of HF-CC and KS-CC methods by comparing the results of widely applied truncated CC calculations (CCSD, CCSD(T), CCSDT) to the limit of full configuration interaction (FCI), which serves as an undebatable reference point of accuracy. Based on a series of CC calculations on diatoms and transition metal complexes, we demonstrate that no systematic improvement of coupled cluster electronic energies, densities and chemical reaction energies is expected when changing from HF to a KS reference. Nevertheless, fortuitous error cancellations might occasionally result in illusory improvement compared to HF-CC. Altogether, the application of KS-CC is not advantageous over HF-CC, but it is also not unreasonable as the choice of reference has negligible influence on the results at sufficiently high CC levels. In addition, KS-CC can be a particularly useful alternative if difficulties are encountered in HF or HF-CC convergence. It is also notable that KS-CC results are found to be practically independent of the chosen density functional, which implies that almost any KS-CC method can be used in place of HF-CC.
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- Zsolt Benedek
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary.,Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary.,Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary.,Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary.,Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.,Department of Physics of Complex Systems, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Autillo M, Wilson RE, Vasiliu M, de Melo GF, Dixon DA. Periodic Trends within Actinyl(VI) Nitrates and Their Structures, Vibrational Spectra, and Electronic Properties. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:15607-15618. [PMID: 36130052 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A series of actinyl(VI) nitrate salts of the form MAnO2(NO3)3, where M = NH4+ K+, Rb+, Cs+, and Me4N+ and AnO22+ = U, Np, Pu, and AnO2(NO3)2(H2O)2·H2O, and the uranyl tetranitrates M2UO2(NO3)4 have been synthesized from aqueous solution and their structures determined using single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Together, these complexes represent an isostructural series of actinide complexes among the salts crystallized with the same charge-compensating cation and have been studied using vibrational spectroscopy including Raman and Fourier-transform infrared. Periodic trends in both the structural properties of these complexes and their vibrational spectra are presented and discussed, in particular the invariant nature of the O≡An≡O asymmetric stretching frequencies observed across the actinyl series. Electronic structure calculations were performed at a variety of levels of theory to aid in the interpretation of the vibrational data and to correlate trends in the data with the underlying electronic properties of these molecules.
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- Matthieu Autillo
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, United States
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de Melo GF, Dixon DA. Protactinium and Actinium Monohydrides: A Theoretical Study on Their Spectroscopic and Thermodynamic Properties. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:6171-6184. [PMID: 36053120 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c04690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Spectroscopic and thermodynamics properties including bond dissociation energies (BDEs), adiabatic electron affinities (AEAs), and ionization energies (IEs) have been predicted for AcH and PaH using the Feller-Peterson-Dixon composite approach. Comparisons with previous studies on ThH and UH were performed to identify possible trends in the actinide series. Multireference CASPT2 calculations were used to predict the spin-orbit effects and obtain potential energy curves for the low-lying Ω states around the equilibrium distance as well as the vertical detachment energies (VDEs) from AcH- and PaH- to excited states of the neutral species. The calculated AEA for AnH (An = Ac, Th, Pa, U) showed that the AEA increases from AcH (0.425 eV) to ThH (0.820 eV) and decreases to PaH (0.781 eV) and to UH (0.457 eV), whereas the IE values are 5.887 eV (AcH), 6.181 eV (ThH), 6.204 eV (PaH), and 6.182 eV (UH). The ground state of AcH, AcH-, PaH, and PaH- are predicted to be1Σ+0,2Π3/2, 3H4, and 4I9/2, respectively. The BDEs for AcH and PaH are 276.4 and 237.2 kJ/mol, and those for AcH- and PaH- are 242.8 and 239.8 kJ/mol, respectively. The natural bond analysis shows a significant ionic character, An+H-, in the bonding of the neutral hydrides.
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- Gabriel F de Melo
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, United States
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Costa Peluzo BMT, Kraka E. Uranium: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Beyond. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23094655. [PMID: 35563047 PMCID: PMC9101921 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23094655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2022] [Revised: 04/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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This review summarizes the recent developments regarding the use of uranium as nuclear fuel, including recycling and health aspects, elucidated from a chemical point of view, i.e., emphasizing the rich uranium coordination chemistry, which has also raised interest in using uranium compounds in synthesis and catalysis. A number of novel uranium coordination features are addressed, such the emerging number of U(II) complexes and uranium nitride complexes as a promising class of materials for more efficient and safer nuclear fuels. The current discussion about uranium triple bonds is addressed by quantum chemical investigations using local vibrational mode force constants as quantitative bond strength descriptors based on vibrational spectroscopy. The local mode analysis of selected uranium nitrides, N≡U≡N, U≡N, N≡U=NH and N≡U=O, could confirm and quantify, for the first time, that these molecules exhibit a UN triple bond as hypothesized in the literature. We hope that this review will inspire the community interested in uranium chemistry and will serve as an incubator for fruitful collaborations between theory and experimentation in exploring the wealth of uranium chemistry.
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Vasiliu M, Marshall M, Zhu Z, Bowen KH, Dixon DA. Molecular Properties of Thorium Hydrides: Electron Affinities and Thermochemistry. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:2388-2396. [PMID: 35411767 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c01460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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High-level electronic structure calculations of the ground and low-lying energy electronic states for ThHx and ThHx- for x = 2-5 are reported and compared to available anion photoelectron detachment experiments. The adiabatic electron affinities (EAs) are predicted to be 0.82, 0.88, 0.51, and 2.36 eV for x = 2 to 5, respectively, at the Feller-Peterson-Dixon (FPD) level. The vertical detachment energies (VDEs) are predicted to be 0.84, 0.88, 0.81, and 4.38 eV for x = 2-5, respectively. The corresponding experimental VDEs are 0.871 eV for x = 2, 0.88 eV for x = 3, and 4.09 eV for x = 5. As for ThH, there is a significant spin-orbit (SO) correction for the EA of ThH2, and this correction decreases substantially for x > 2. The observed ThH2- photoelectron spectrum has many transitions as predicted at the CASPT2-SO level. The FPD bond dissociation energies (BDEs) increase from 67 to 75 kcal/mol for x = 2 to x = 4 at the FPD level. The BDE for ThH5 is much lower as it is a complex of H2 with ThH3. The hydride affinities for x = 2 to 4 are all comparable and near 70 kcal/mol. A natural bond orbital analysis is consistent with a significant Th+-H- ionic contribution to the Th-H bonds. There is very little participation of the 5f orbitals in the bonding and the valence electrons on the Th are dominated by 7s and 6d for the neutrals and anions except for ThH2- where there is a significant contribution from the 7p.
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- Monica Vasiliu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, United States
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Lontchi EM, Vasiliu M, Tatina LM, Caccamo AC, Gomez AN, Gibson JK, Dixon DA. Hydrolysis of Small Oxo/Hydroxo Molecules Containing High Oxidation State Actinides (Th, Pa, U, Np, Pu): A Computational Study. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:6158-6170. [PMID: 34240864 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c04048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The energetics of hydrolysis reactions for high oxidation states of oxo/hydroxo monomeric actinide species (ThIVO2, PaIVO2, UIVO2, PaVO2(OH), UVO2(OH), UVIO3, NpVIO3, NpVIIO3(OH), and PuVIIO3(OH)) were calculated at the CCSD(T) level. The first step is the formation of a Lewis acid/base adduct with H2O (hydration), followed by a proton transfer to form a dihydroxide molecule (hydrolysis); this process is repeated until all oxo groups are hydrolyzed. The physisorption (hydration) for each H2O addition was predicted to be exothermic, ca. -20 kcal/mol. The hydrolysis products are preferred energetically over the hydration products for the +IV and +V oxidation states. The compounds with AnVI are a turning point in terms of favoring hydration over hydrolysis. For AnVIIO3(OH), hydration products are preferred, and only two waters can bind; the complete hydrolysis process is now endothermic, and the oxidation state for the An in An(OH)7 is +VI with two OH groups each having one-half an electron. The natural bond order charges and the reaction energies provide insights into the nature of the hydrolysis/hydration processes. The actinide charges and bond ionicity generally decrease across the period. The ionic character decreases as the oxidation state and coordination number increase so that covalency increases moving to the right in the actinide period.
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- Eddy M Lontchi
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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Ciborowski SM, Liu G, Blankenhorn M, Harris RM, Marshall MA, Zhu Z, Bowen KH, Peterson KA. The electron affinity of the uranium atom. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:224307. [PMID: 34241193 DOI: 10.1063/5.0046315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The results of a combined experimental and computational study of the uranium atom are presented with the aim of determining its electron affinity. Experimentally, the electron affinity of uranium was measured via negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy of the uranium atomic anion, U-. Computationally, the electron affinities of both thorium and uranium were calculated by conducting relativistic coupled-cluster and multi-reference configuration interaction calculations. The experimentally determined value of the electron affinity of the uranium atom was determined to be 0.309 ± 0.025 eV. The computationally predicted electron affinity of uranium based on composite coupled cluster calculations and full four-component spin-orbit coupling was found to be 0.232 eV. Predominately due to a better convergence of the coupled cluster sequence for Th and Th-, the final calculated electron affinity of Th, 0.565 eV, was in much better agreement with the accurate experimental value of 0.608 eV. In both cases, the ground state of the anion corresponds to electron attachment to the 6d orbital.
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- Sandra M Ciborowski
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99162, USA
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DeJesus JF, Kerr RWF, Penchoff DA, Carroll XB, Peterson CC, Arnold PL, Jenkins DM. Actinide tetra-N-heterocyclic carbene 'sandwiches'. Chem Sci 2021; 12:7882-7887. [PMID: 34168841 PMCID: PMC8188502 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc01007g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Highly-symmetrical, thorium and uranium octakis-carbene 'sandwich' complexes have been prepared by 'sandwiching' the An(iv) cations between two anionic macrocyclic tetra-NHC ligands, one with sixteen atoms and the other with eighteen atoms. The complexes were characterized by a range of experimental methods and DFT calculations. X-ray crystallography confirms the geometry at the metal centre can be set by the size of the macrocyclic ring, leading to either square prismatic or square anti-prismatic shapes; the geometry of the latter is retained in solution, which also undergoes reversible, electrochemical one-electron oxidation or reduction for the uranium variant. DFT calculations reveal a frontier orbital picture that is similar to thorocene and uranocene, in which the NHC ligands show almost exclusively σ-donation to the metal without π-backbonding.
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- Joseph F DeJesus
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee 37996 USA
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- School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh West Mains Road Edinburgh EH9 3JJ UK
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- Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, The University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee 37996 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee 37996 USA
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- Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, The University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee 37996 USA
- Research IT Services, University of North Texas Denton Texas 76201 USA
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- School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh West Mains Road Edinburgh EH9 3JJ UK
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee 37996 USA
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Bubas AR, Perez E, Metzler LJ, Rissler SD, Van Stipdonk MJ. Collision-induced dissociation of [UO 2 (NO 3 )(O 2 )] - and reactions of product ions with H 2 O and O 2. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2021; 56:e4720. [PMID: 33813763 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2021] [Revised: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We recently reported a detailed investigation of the collision-induced dissociation (CID) of [UO2 (NO3 )3 ]- and [UO2 (NO3 )2 (O2 )]- in a linear ion trap mass spectrometer (J. Mass Spectrom. DOI:10.1002/jms.4705). Here, we describe the CID of [UO2 (NO3 )(O2 )]- which is created directly by ESI, or indirectly by simple elimination of O2 from [UO2 (NO3 )(O2 )2 ]- . CID of [UO2 (NO3 )(O2 )]- creates product ions as at m/z 332 and m/z 318. The former may be formed directly by elimination of O2 , while the latter required decomposition of a nitrate ligand and elimination of NO2 . DFT calculations identify a pathway by which both product ions can be generated, which involves initial isomerization of [UO2 (NO3 )(O2 )]- to create [UO2 (O)(NO2 )(O2 )]- , from which elimination of NO2 or O2 will leave [UO2 (O)(O2 )]- or [UO2 (O)(NO2 )]- , respectively. For the latter product ion, the composition assignment of [UO2 (O)(NO2 )]- rather than [UO2 (NO3 )]- is supported by ion-molecule reaction behavior, and in particular, the fact that spontaneous addition of O2 , which is predicted to be the dominant reaction pathway for [UO2 (NO3 )]- is not observed. Instead, the species reacts with H2 O, which is predicted to be the favored pathway for [UO2 (O)(NO2 )]- . This result in particular demonstrates the utility of ion-molecule reactions to assist the determination of ion composition. As in our earlier study, we find that ions such as [UO2 (O)(NO2 )]- and [UO2 (O)(O2 )]- form H2 O adducts, and calculations suggest these species spontaneously rearrange to create dihydroxides.
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- Amanda R Bubas
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Bubas AR, Perez E, Metzler LJ, Rissler SD, Van Stipdonk MJ. Collision-induced dissociation of [UO 2 (NO 3 ) 3 ] - and [UO 2 (NO 3 ) 2 (O 2 )] - and reactions of product ions with H 2 O and O 2. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2021; 56:e4705. [PMID: 33569852 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/18/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Electrospray ionization (ESI) can produce a wide range of gas-phase uranyl (UO2 2+ ) complexes for tandem mass spectrometry studies of intrinsic structure and reactivity. We describe here the formation and collision-induced dissociation (CID) of [UO2 (NO3 )3 ]- and [UO2 (NO3 )2 (O2 )]- . Multiple-stage CID experiments reveal that the complexes dissociate in reactions that involve elimination of O2 , NO2 , or NO3 , and subsequent reactions of interesting uranyl-oxo product ions with (neutral) H2 O and/or O2 were investigated. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reproduce experimental results and show that dissociation of nitrate ligands, with ejection of neutral NO2 , is favored for both [UO2 (NO3 )3 ]- and [UO2 (NO3 )2 (O2 )]- . DFT calculations also suggest that H2 O adducts to products such as [UO2 (O)(NO3 )]- spontaneously rearrange to create dihydroxides and that addition of O2 is favored over addition of H2 O to formally U(V) species.
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- Amanda R Bubas
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Bonato L, Virot M, Le Goff X, Moisy P, Nikitenko SI. Sonochemical dissolution of nanoscale ThO 2 and partial conversion into a thorium peroxo sulfate. ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY 2020; 69:105235. [PMID: 32619920 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2020.105235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Revised: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The influence of the sample morphology and experimental conditions towards the sonochemical dissolution of nanoscale ThO2 samples in sulfuric acid media is described. Significant sonochemical dissolution rates and yields are observed at 20 kHz under Ar/O2 atmosphere in dilute 0.5 M H2SO4 at room temperature, contrasting with the generally-reported high refractory behavior for ThO2. The dissolution of ThO2 combines the physical effects driven by acoustic cavitation phenomenon, the complexing affinity of Th(IV) in sulfuric medium and the sonochemical generation of H2O2. These sonochemical conditions further allow the observation of the partial conversion of ThO2 into a scarce Th(IV) peroxo sulfate with 1D morphology resulting from one or both following processes: dissolution/reprecipitation or formation of an intermediate Th(IV) surface complex.
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- Laura Bonato
- ICSM, Univ Montpellier, CEA, CNRS, ENSCM, Marcoule, France
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- ICSM, Univ Montpellier, CEA, CNRS, ENSCM, Marcoule, France.
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- ICSM, Univ Montpellier, CEA, CNRS, ENSCM, Marcoule, France
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Lee ZR, Flores LA, Copeland WB, Murphy JG, Dixon DA. Reaction of NO 2 with Groups IV and VI Transition Metal Oxide Clusters. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:9222-9236. [PMID: 33086016 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c06760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The addition of NO2 to Group IV (MO2)n and Group VI (MO3)n (n = 1-3) nanoclusters was studied using both density functional theory (DFT) and coupled cluster theory (CCSD(T)). The structures and overall binding energetics were predicted for Lewis acid-base addition without transfer of spin (a physisorption-type process) and the formation of either cluster-ONO (HONO-like or bidentate bonding) or NO3- formation where for both the spin is transferred to the metal oxide clusters (a chemisorption-type process). Only chemisorption of NO2 is predicted to be thermodynamically allowed at temperatures ≥298 K for Group IV (MO2)n clusters with the formation of surface chemisorbed NO2 being by far the most energetically favorable. The ligand binding energies (LBEs) for physisorption and chemisorption on the TiO2 nanoclusters are consistent with computational studies of the bulk solids. Chemisorption is only predicted to occur for (CrO3)n clusters in the form of a terminal nitrate containing species whereas the larger chemisorbed nitrate structures for (MoO3)n and (WO3)n were found to be metastable and unlikely to form in any appreciable amount at temperatures of 298 K and higher. NO2 is predicted to only be capable of physisorbing to (MoO3)n and (WO3)n at lower temperatures and therefore unlikely to bind NO2 at temperatures ≥298 K. Correlations between the (MO3)nNO2 ligand bond energies and the chemical properties of the parent (MO3)n clusters (Lewis acidity, ionization potentials, excitation energies, and M = O/M-O bond strengths) are described.
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- Zachary R Lee
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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Dau PD, Vasiliu M, Wilson RE, Dixon DA, Gibson JK. Hydrolysis of Metal Dioxides Differentiates d-block from f-block Elements: Pa(V) as a 6d Transition Metal; Pr(V) as a 4f “Lanthanyl”. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:9272-9287. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c08171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Phuong D. Dau
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Franzke YJ, Spiske L, Pollak P, Weigend F. Segmented Contracted Error-Consistent Basis Sets of Quadruple-ζ Valence Quality for One- and Two-Component Relativistic All-Electron Calculations. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:5658-5674. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Yannick J. Franzke
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straÿe. 4, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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Small DW. Remarkable Accuracy of an O( N6) Perturbative Correction to Opposite-Spin CCSD: Are Triples Necessary for Chemical Accuracy in Coupled Cluster? J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:4014-4020. [PMID: 32551642 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The focus of this work is OS-CCSD-SPT(2), which is a second-order similarity transformed perturbation theory correction to opposite spin coupled cluster singles doubles, where in the latter the same-spin amplitudes are removed and the opposite-spin ones are solved self-consistently. OS-CCSD-SPT(2) is free of empirical parameters, has an instrinsic scaling of O(N6), and makes no use of triples. We demonstrate that, for non-multireference molecules, OS-CCSD-SPT(2) produces relative energies whose accuracy is significantly higher than what is generally expected of a triples-free model. For example, using PBE0 orbitals in the reference, OS-CCSD-SPT(2) exhibits a mean absolute deviation (MAD) of 1.13 kcal/mol with respect to CCSD(2F) benchmark values for the non-multireference subset of W4-08 atomization energies (cf. a MAD > 6.5 kcal/mol for CCSD) and a MAD of 0.68 kcal/mol for the energies of reactions generated from the W4-08 molecules. These MADs are reduced to 0.61 and 0.63 kcal/mol, respectively, by a simple one-parameter spin-component scaling of the OS-CCSD-SPT(2) same-spin correlation energy. OS-CCSD is also naturally amenable to higher order corrections: the associated third-order correction, OS-CCSD-SPT(3), which does involve connected triples and quadruples, exhibits a MAD of 0.44 kcal/mol for the same atomization-energy benchmark.
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- David W Small
- Molecular Graphics and Computation Facility, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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The oxo exchange reaction mechanism of americyl(VI): a density functional theory study. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10967-020-07097-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Vasiliu M, Jian T, Gibson JK, Peterson KA, Dixon DA. A Computational Assessment of Actinide Dioxide Cations AnO22+ for An = U to Lr: The Limited Stability Range of the Hexavalent Actinyl Moiety, [O═An═O]2+. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:4554-4566. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Monica Vasiliu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, United States
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Armentrout PB, Peterson KA. Guided Ion Beam and Quantum Chemical Investigation of the Thermochemistry of Thorium Dioxide Cations: Thermodynamic Evidence for Participation of f Orbitals in Bonding. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:3118-3131. [PMID: 32083480 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Kinetic energy dependent reactions of ThO+ with O2 are studied using a guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer. The formation of ThO2+ in the reaction of ThO+ with O2 is observed to be slightly endothermic and also exhibits two obvious features in the cross section. These kinetic energy dependent cross sections were modeled to determine a 0 K bond dissociation energy of D0(OTh+-O) = 4.94 ± 0.06 eV. This value is slightly larger but within experimental uncertainty of less precise previously reported experimental values. The higher energy feature in the ThO2+ cross section was also analyzed and suggests formation of an excited state of the product ion lying 3.1 ± 0.2 eV above the ground state. Additionally, the thermochemistry of ThO2+ was explored by quantum chemical calculations, including a full Feller-Peterson-Dixon (FPD) composite approach with correlation contributions up to CCSDT(Q) and four-component spin-orbit corrections, as well as more approximate CCSD(T) calculations including semiempirical estimates of spin-orbit energy contributions. The FPD approach predicts D0(OTh+-O) = 4.87 ± 0.04 eV, in good agreement with the experimental value. Analogous FPD results for ThO+, ThO, and ThO2 are also presented, including ionization energies for both ThO and ThO2. The ThO2+ bond energy is larger than those of its transition metal congeners, TiO2+ and ZrO2+, which can be attributed partially to an actinide contraction, but also to contributions from the participation of f orbitals on thorium that are unavailable to the transition metal systems.
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- P B Armentrout
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4630, United States
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Ariyarathna IR, Miliordos E. Carbon monoxide activation by atomic thorium: ground and excited state reaction pathways. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:24469-24477. [PMID: 31686066 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp04946k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Multi-reference configuration interaction (MRCI) and single reference coupled cluster calculations are performed for the ThCO and OThC isomers. Scalar and spin-orbit relativistic effects are considered through a relativistic pseudopotential and the coupling of MRCI wavefunctions via the Breit-Pauli spin-orbit Hamiltonian. Optimized geometries, excitation energies, and vibrational frequencies are reported for both isomers. Full potential energy profiles are constructed for the Th+CO reaction and the conversion of the produced ThCO to OThC. Linear ThCO was found to be more stable than the highly ionic bent OThC system by about 4 kcal mol-1. The interconversion barrier is estimated to be around 30 kcal mol-1. Our results are in agreement with earlier experimental data for the two isomers. The lowest lying states of Th do not populate f-orbitals and resemble the electronic structure of Ti. Therefore, the ability of the two atoms to activate the C[triple bond, length as m-dash]O bond is compared. OTiC is found to be about 40 kcal mol-1 less stable than TiCO revealing the efficiency of Th and possibly other f-block elements to activate multiple chemical bonds as opposed to d-block metals.
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- Isuru R Ariyarathna
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5312, USA.
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Wang Q, Zhu C, Huang X, Yang G. Abiotic reduction of uranium(VI) with humic acid at mineral surfaces: Competing mechanisms, ligand and substituent effects, and electronic structure and vibrational properties. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2019; 254:113110. [PMID: 31479808 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2019] [Revised: 07/30/2019] [Accepted: 08/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Abiotic reduction represents an attractive technology to control U(VI) contamination. In this work, an abiotic route of U(VI) reduction with humic acid at mineral surfaces is proposed and reaction mechanisms are addressed by periodic density functional theory calculations. Different influencing factors such as ligand effect, content of CO32- ligands and substituent effect are inspected. The coordination chemistry of uranyl(VI) surface complexes relies strongly on substrates and ligands, and the calculated results are in good agreements with experimental observations available. For the OH- ligand, two competitive mechanisms co-exist that respectively produce the U(IV) and U(V) species, and the former is significantly preferred because of lower energy barriers. Instead, the NO3- ligand leads to the formation of U(V) while for the Cl- ligand, the U(VI) surface complex remains very stable and is not likely to be reduced because of very high energy barriers. The U(V) and U(IV) complexes are the predominant products for low and high CO32- contents, respectively. Accordingly, the abiotic reduction processes with humic acid are efficient to manage U(VI) contamination and become preferred under basic conditions or at higher CO32- contents. The U(VI) reduction is further promoted by introduction of electron-donating rather than electron-withdrawing substituents to humic acid. Electronic structure analyses and vibrational frequency assignments are calculated for the various uranium surface complexes of the reduction processes, serving as a guide for future experimental and engineered studies. The molecular-level understanding given in this work offers an abiotic route for efficient reduction of U(VI) and remediation of U(VI)-contaminated sites at ambient conditions.
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- Qian Wang
- College of Resources and Environment & Chongqing Key Laboratory of Soil Multi-scale Interfacial Process, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- College of Resources and Environment & Chongqing Key Laboratory of Soil Multi-scale Interfacial Process, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- College of Resources and Environment & Chongqing Key Laboratory of Soil Multi-scale Interfacial Process, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- College of Resources and Environment & Chongqing Key Laboratory of Soil Multi-scale Interfacial Process, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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Cox RM, Armentrout PB. Activation of Water by Thorium Cation: A Guided Ion Beam and Quantum Chemical Study. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2019; 30:1835-1849. [PMID: 31016605 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-019-02162-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2019] [Revised: 02/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/15/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The reaction of atomic thorium cations with deuterated water as a function of kinetic energy from thermal to 10 eV was studied using guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometry. At thermal energies, both ThO+ + D2 and DThO+ + D are formed in barrierless exothermic processes and reproduce results in the literature obtained using ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. As the energy is increased, the branching ratio between these two channels changes such that the dominant product changes from ThO+ to DThO+ and back to ThO+, until ThD+ + OD is energetically available and is the dominant product channel. To help understand these experimental results, a variety of theoretical approaches were tried and used to establish a potential energy surface, which compares well with previous theoretical studies. Utilizing the theoretical results, the kinetic energy dependent branching ratio between the ThO+ + D2 and DThO+ + D channels was calculated using both RRKM and phase space theory (PST). The results indicate that consideration of angular momentum conservation (as in PST) and spin-orbit corrected energies are needed to reproduce experimental results quantitatively. The PST modeling also provides relative energies for the two competing transition states that lead to the primary products, for which theory provides reasonable agreement. Graphical Abstract Note: This data is.
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- Richard M Cox
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112-0850, USA
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd, Richland, WA, 99354, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112-0850, USA.
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Jian T, Dau PD, Shuh DK, Vasiliu M, Dixon DA, Peterson KA, Gibson JK. Activation of Water by Pentavalent Actinide Dioxide Cations: Characteristic Curium Revealed by a Reactivity Turn after Americium. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:14005-14014. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Tian Jian
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Tatosian I, Bubas A, Iacovino A, Kline S, Metzler L, Van Stipdonk M. Formation and hydrolysis of gas-phase [UO 2 (R)] + : R═CH 3 , CH 2 CH 3 , CH═CH 2 , and C 6 H 5. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2019; 54:780-789. [PMID: 31426122 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2019] [Revised: 08/05/2019] [Accepted: 08/12/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The goals of the present study were (a) to create positively charged organo-uranyl complexes with general formula [UO2 (R)]+ (eg, R═CH3 and CH2 CH3 ) by decarboxylation of [UO2 (O2 C─R)]+ precursors and (b) to identify the pathways by which the complexes, if formed, dissociate by collisional activation or otherwise react when exposed to gas-phase H2 O. Collision-induced dissociation (CID) of both [UO2 (O2 C─CH3 )]+ and [UO2 (O2 C─CH2 CH3 )]+ causes H+ transfer and elimination of a ketene to leave [UO2 (OH)]+ . However, CID of the alkoxides [UO2 (OCH2 CH3 )]+ and [UO2 (OCH2 CH2 CH3 )]+ produced [UO2 (CH3 )]+ and [UO2 (CH2 CH3 )]+ , respectively. Isolation of [UO2 (CH3 )]+ and [UO2 (CH2 CH3 )]+ for reaction with H2 O caused formation of [UO2 (H2 O)]+ by elimination of ·CH3 and ·CH2 CH3 : Hydrolysis was not observed. CID of the acrylate and benzoate versions of the complexes, [UO2 (O2 C─CH═CH2 )]+ and [UO2 (O2 C─C6 H5 )]+ , caused decarboxylation to leave [UO2 (CH═CH2 )]+ and [UO2 (C6 H5 )]+ , respectively. These organometallic species do react with H2 O to produce [UO2 (OH)]+ , and loss of the respective radicals to leave [UO2 (H2 O)]+ was not detected. Density functional theory calculations suggest that formation of [UO2 (OH)]+ , rather than the hydrated UV O2 + , cation is energetically favored regardless of the precursor ion. However, for the [UO2 (CH3 )]+ and [UO2 (CH2 CH3 )]+ precursors, the transition state energy for proton transfer to generate [UO2 (OH)]+ and the associated neutral alkanes is higher than the path involving direct elimination of the organic neutral to form [UO2 (H2 O)]+ . The situation is reversed for the [UO2 (CH═CH2 )]+ and [UO2 (C6 H5 )]+ precursors: The transition state for proton transfer is lower than the energy required for creation of [UO2 (H2 O)]+ by elimination of CH═CH2 or C6 H5 radical.
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- Irena Tatosian
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15282, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15282, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 215 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15282, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15282, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15282, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15282, USA
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Le Naour C, Roques J, Den Auwer C, Moisy P, Aupiais J. Protactinium(V) in aqueous solution: a light actinide without actinyl moiety. RADIOCHIM ACTA 2019. [DOI: 10.1515/ract-2019-3119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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This review highlights recent data on the complexation of Pa(V) with inorganic (fluoride and sulphate) and organic (oxalate, nitrilotriacetate, diethylenetriaminepentaacetate) ligands in solution. New thermodynamic parameters relative to the complexation of Pa(V) with sulphate are presented. The review also includes gas phase and theoretical studies focused on the interaction of Pa(V) in the dioxo and oxo forms with water.
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- Claire Le Naour
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3 , Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay , 91406 Orsay Cedex , France
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3 , Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay , 91406 Orsay Cedex , France
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- CEA, Nuclear Energy Division, Research Department of Mining and Fuel Recycling Processes, DMRC , BP 17171, 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze , France
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Cox RM, Kafle A, Armentrout PB, Peterson KA. Bond energy of ThN+: A guided ion beam and quantum chemical investigation of the reactions of thorium cation with N2 and NO. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:034304. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5111534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Richard M. Cox
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4630, USA
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Hu SX, Jian J, Li J, Gibson JK. Destruction of the Uranyl Moiety in a U(V) “Cation–Cation” Interaction. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:10148-10159. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Shu-Xian Hu
- Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100193, China
- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Duan M, Li P, Zhao H, Xie F, Ma J. Organic Compounds of Actinyls: Systematic Computational Assessment of Structural and Topological Properties in [AnO 2(C 2O 4) n] (2 n-2)- (An = U, Np, Pu, Am; n = 1-3) Complexes. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:3425-3434. [PMID: 30785280 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Exploring the bonding features between organics and actinide elements is a fundamental topic in nuclear waste separation. In this work, [AnO2(C2O4) n](2 n-2)- (An = U, Np, Pu, and Am; n = 1-3) complexes have been characterized by density functional theory. The actinyl oxalate complexes are found to exhibit the typical An-Oyl, An-Oeq bonds and Oyl-An-Oyl angles. Interatomic interaction analyzed by electron density difference, charge decomposition analysis, charges population, bond order, electron localization function, and quantum theory of atom in molecules indicates that An-Oeq bonds are ionic (closed-shell) bonding interaction with a small degree of covalent character. The similarities and differences between isomers have been discussed in the actinide coordination chemistry, and the orbital interactions also have been investigated through total, partial, and overlap population density of state diagrams. Besides, the electrostatic potential was used to predict the adsorption sites on the molecular vdW surface.
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- Meigang Duan
- Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory, School of Physics and Electronics Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics , Shanxi University , Taiyuan 030006 , China
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- Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory, School of Physics and Electronics Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics , Shanxi University , Taiyuan 030006 , China
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- Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory, School of Physics and Electronics Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics , Shanxi University , Taiyuan 030006 , China
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- Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Reactor Engineering and Safety of Ministry of Education , Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084 , China
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- Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory, School of Physics and Electronics Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics , Shanxi University , Taiyuan 030006 , China
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Vasiliu M, Gibson JK, Peterson KA, Dixon DA. Gas Phase Hydrolysis and Oxo‐Exchange of Actinide Dioxide Cations: Elucidating Intrinsic Chemistry from Protactinium to Einsteinium. Chemistry 2019; 25:4245-4254. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201803932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Monica Vasiliu
- Department of Chemistry The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall Tuscaloosa Alabama 35487-0336 USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Washington State University Pullman WA 99164-4630 USA
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- Department of Chemistry The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall Tuscaloosa Alabama 35487-0336 USA
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Li L, Stüker T, Andrews L, Beckers H, Riedel S. Infrared Spectra of the HAnX and H2
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Molecules (An=Th and U, X=Cl and Br) in Argon Matrices Supported by Electronic Structure Calculations. Chemistry 2019; 25:1795-1805. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201805372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2018] [Revised: 11/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Lin Li
- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie; Freie Universität Berlin; Fabeckstr. 34-36 Berlin Germany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie; Freie Universität Berlin; Fabeckstr. 34-36 Berlin Germany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie; Freie Universität Berlin; Fabeckstr. 34-36 Berlin Germany
- Chemistry Department; University of Virginia; Charlottesville VA 22904-4319 USA
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie; Freie Universität Berlin; Fabeckstr. 34-36 Berlin Germany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie; Freie Universität Berlin; Fabeckstr. 34-36 Berlin Germany
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Wang B, Xia CJ, Fang HL, Chen WJ, Zhang YF, Huang X. Mononuclear thorium halide clusters ThX 4 (X = F, Cl): gas-phase hydrolysis reactions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:21184-21193. [PMID: 30083693 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp03071e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been performed to explore the gas-phase hydrolysis reaction of mononuclear thorium halide clusters ThX4 (X = F, Cl). We have found that the hydrolysis of ThCl4 is easier than that of ThF4. Furthermore, their hydrolysis reactions favor pathways of direct dehydration of Th(OH)4 instead of further hydrolysis of ThOX2. There are some differences between the hydrolysis of ThCl4 and that of MCl4 (M = Ti, Zr and Hf). The X-HY (X = F, Cl; Y = F, Cl and OH) hydrogen bonds play an important role in the hydrogen transfer process of the hydrolysis reaction. The differences in the steric effects and bonding may be important factors that are related to the disparities in the hydrolysis of the above-mentioned metal halides.
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- Bin Wang
- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350116, P. R. China.
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Schnaars DD, Wilson RE. Synthesis, Structure, and Vibrational Properties of [Ph4P]2NpO2Cl4 and [Ph4P]2PuO2Cl4 Complexes. Inorg Chem 2018; 57:3008-3016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- David D. Schnaars
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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Wilson RE, De Sio S, Vallet V. Protactinium and the intersection of actinide and transition metal chemistry. Nat Commun 2018; 9:622. [PMID: 29434286 PMCID: PMC5809381 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-02972-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The role of the 5f and 6d orbitals in the chemistry of the actinide elements has been of considerable interest since their discovery and synthesis. Relativistic effects cause the energetics of the 5f and 6d orbitals to change as the actinide series is traversed left to right imparting a rich and complex chemistry. The 5f and 6d atomic states cross in energy at protactinium (Pa), making it a potential intersection between transition metal and actinide chemistries. Herein, we report the synthesis of a Pa-peroxo cluster, A6(Pa4O(O2)6F12) [A = Rb, Cs, (CH3)4N], formed in pursuit of an actinide polyoxometalate. Quantum chemical calculations at the density functional theory level demonstrate equal 5f and 6d orbital participation in the chemistry of Pa and increasing 5f orbital participation for the heavier actinides. Periodic changes in orbital character to the bonding in the early actinides highlights the influence of the 5f orbitals in their reactivity and chemical structure.
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- Richard E Wilson
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA
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- Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, F-59000, Lille, France.
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Armentrout PB, Demireva M, Peterson KA. Guided ion beam and theoretical studies of the bond energy of SmS . J Chem Phys 2017; 147:214307. [PMID: 29221388 DOI: 10.1063/1.5009916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Previous work has shown that atomic samarium cations react with carbonyl sulfide to form SmS+ + CO in an exothermic and barrierless process. To characterize this reaction further, the bond energy of SmS+ is determined in the present study using guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometry. Reactions of SmS+ with Xe, CO, and O2 are examined. Results for collision-induced dissociation processes with all three molecules along with the endothermicity of the SmS+ + CO → Sm+ + COS exchange reaction are combined to yield D0(Sm+-S) = 3.37 ± 0.20 eV. The CO and O2 reactions also yield a SmSO+ product, with measured endothermicities that indicate D0(SSm+-O) = 3.73 ± 0.16 eV and D0(OSm+-S) = 1.38 ± 0.27 eV. The SmS+ bond energy is compared with theoretical values characterized at several levels of theory, including CCSD(T) complete basis set extrapolations using all-electron basis sets. Multireference configuration interaction calculations with explicit spin-orbit calculations along with composite thermochemistry using the Feller-Peterson-Dixon method and all-electron basis sets were also explored for SmS+, and for comparison, SmO, SmO+, and EuO.
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- P B Armentrout
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4630, USA
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Dau PD, Vasiliu M, Peterson KA, Dixon DA, Gibson JK. Remarkably High Stability of Late Actinide Dioxide Cations: Extending Chemistry to Pentavalent Berkelium and Californium. Chemistry 2017; 23:17369-17378. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Phuong D. Dau
- Chemical Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720 USA
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- Department of Chemistry The University of Alabama Shelby Hall Tuscaloosa Alabama 35487-0336 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Washington State University Pullman WA 99164-4630 USA
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- Department of Chemistry The University of Alabama Shelby Hall Tuscaloosa Alabama 35487-0336 USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720 USA
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Flores LA, Murphy JG, Copeland WB, Dixon DA. Reaction of SO2 with Group IV and VI transition metal oxide clusters. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2017.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Feng R, Peterson KA. Correlation consistent basis sets for actinides. II. The atoms Ac and Np–Lr. J Chem Phys 2017; 147:084108. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4994725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Rulin Feng
- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4630, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4630, USA
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de Jong WA, Dau PD, Wilson RE, Marçalo J, Van Stipdonk MJ, Corcovilos TA, Berden G, Martens J, Oomens J, Gibson JK. Revealing Disparate Chemistries of Protactinium and Uranium. Synthesis of the Molecular Uranium Tetroxide Anion, UO4–. Inorg Chem 2017; 56:3686-3694. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Wibe A. de Jong
- Computational Research
Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Centro
de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2695-066 Bobadela Loures, Portugal
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282, United States
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- Department of
Physics, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282, United States
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- Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and
Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Toernooiveld 7c, 6525ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and
Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Toernooiveld 7c, 6525ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and
Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Toernooiveld 7c, 6525ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- van ‘t
Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science
Park 904, 1098XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Feng R, Vasiliu M, Peterson KA, Dixon DA. Acidity of M(VI)O2(OH)2 for M = Group 6, 16, and U as Central Atoms. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:1041-1050. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b11889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Rulin Feng
- Department
of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4630, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4630, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, Shelby Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0336, United States
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Wilson RE, De Sio S, Vallet V. Structural and Electronic Properties of Fluoride Complexes of Nb
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, Ta
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, and Pa
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: The Influence of Relativistic Effects on Group V Elements. Eur J Inorg Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201600981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Richard E. Wilson
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory 60439 Argonne IL USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory 60439 Argonne IL USA
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- Univ. Lille CNRS UMR 8523 ‐ PhLAM ‐ Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules 59000 Lille France
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