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Bai Z, Scheibe B, Sperling JM, Beck NB, Brannon JP, Gomez Martinez D, Rotermund BM, Albrecht-Schönzart TE. Transformation of Mononuclear Plutonium(III) Tetrazolate Complexes into Dinuclear Complexes in the Solid State. Inorg Chem 2024; 63:1266-1273. [PMID: 38165641 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2024]
Abstract
The salt metathesis reaction of Na(pmtz)·H2O [pmtz- = 5-(pyrimidyl)tetrazolate] and PuBr3·nH2O in an aqueous media leads to the formation of the mononuclear compound [Pu(pmtz)3(H2O)3]·(3 + n) H2O (Pu1, n = ∼8) that is isotypic with the lanthanide compounds [Ln(pmtz)3(H2O)3]·(3 + n) H2O (Ln = Ce-Nd). Dissolution and recrystallization of Pu1 in water yields the dinuclear compound {[Pu(pmtz)2(H2O)3]2(μ-pmtz)}2(pmtz)2·14H2O (Pu2), which is isotypic with the lanthanide compounds {[Ln(pmtz)2(H2O)3]2(μ-pmtz)}2(pmtz)2·14H2O (Ln = Nd and Sm). Like their nine-coordinate ionic radii, the M-O and M-N bond lengths in Pu1/Pu2 and Nd1/Nd2, respectively, are within error of one another. The Laporte-forbidden 4f → 4f and 5f → 5f transitions are also assigned in the UV-vis-NIR spectra for these f-element tetrazolate coordination compounds.
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- Zhuanling Bai
- Department of Chemistry and Nuclear Science & Engineering Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Nuclear Science & Engineering Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Nuclear Science & Engineering Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Nuclear Science & Engineering Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Nuclear Science & Engineering Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Nuclear Science & Engineering Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Nuclear Science & Engineering Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Nuclear Science & Engineering Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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Carpenter S, Klamm BE, Fetrow TV, Scott BL, Gaunt AJ, Anderson NH, Tondreau AM. Chlorination of Pu and U Metal Using GaCl 3. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:8462-8466. [PMID: 37220066 PMCID: PMC10246562 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The oxidative chlorination of the plutonium metal was achieved through a reaction with gallium(III) chloride (GaCl3). In DME (DME = 1,2-dimethoxyethane) as the solvent, substoichiometric (2.8 equiv) amounts of GaCl3 were added, which consumed roughly 60% of the plutonium metal over the course of 10 days. The salt species [PuCl2(dme)3][GaCl4] was isolated as pale-purple crystals, and both solid-state and solution UV-vis-NIR spectroscopies were consistent with the formation of a trivalent plutonium complex. The analogous reaction was performed with uranium metal, generating a dicationic trivalent uranium complex crystallized as the [UCl(dme)3][GaCl4]2 salt. The extraction of [UCl(dme)3][GaCl4]2 in DME at 70 °C followed by crystallization produced [{U(dme)3}2(μ-Cl3)][GaCl4]3, a product arising from the loss of GaCl3. This method of halogenation worked on a small scale for plutonium and uranium, providing a route to cationic Pu3+ and dicationic U3+ complexes using GaCl3 in DME.
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- Stephanie
H. Carpenter
- Chemistry
Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Pit
Technologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Pit
Technologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Materials
and Physics Applications Division, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Chemistry
Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Pit
Technologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Chemistry
Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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Arteaga A, Nicholas AD, Ducati LC, Autschbach J, Surbella RG. Americium Oxalate: An Experimental and Computational Investigation of Metal-Ligand Bonding. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:4814-4822. [PMID: 36920249 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
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A novel actinide-containing coordination polymer, [Am(C2O4)(H2O)3Cl] (Am-1), has been synthesized and structurally characterized. The crystallographic analysis reveals that the structure is two-dimensional and comprised of pseudo-dimeric Am3+ nodes that are bridged by oxalate ligands to form sheets. Each metal center is nine-coordinate, forming a distorted capped square antiprism geometry with a C1 symmetry, and features bound oxalate, aqua, and chloro ligands. The Am3+-ligand bonds were probed computationally using the quantum theory of atoms in molecules nd natural localized molecular orbital approaches to investigate the underlying mechanisms and hybrid atomic orbital contributions therein. The analyses indicate that the bonds within Am-1 are predominantly ionic and the 5f shell of the Am3+ metal centers does not add a significant covalent contribution to the bonds. Our bonding assessment is supported by measurements on the optical properties of Am-1 using diffuse reflectance and photoluminescence spectroscopies. The position of the principal absorption band at 507 nm (5L6' ← 7F0') is notable because it is consistent with previously reported americium oxalate complexes in solution, indicating similarities in the electronic structure and ionic bonding. Compound Am-1 is an active phosphor, featuring strong bright-blue oxalate-based luminescence with no evidence of metal-centered emission.
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- Ana Arteaga
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Department of Fundamental Chemistry Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 748, São Paulo 05508-000, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 312 Natural Sciences Complex, Buffalo, New York 14260, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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Surbella RG, Ducati LC, Schofield MH, McNamara BK, Pellegrini KL, Corbey JF, Schwantes JM, Autschbach J, Cahill CL. Plutonium Hybrid Materials: A Platform to Explore Assembly and Metal–Ligand Bonding. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:17963-17971. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Robert G. Surbella
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Department of Fundamental Chemistry Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 748, São Paulo 05508-000, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, The George Washington University, 800 22nd Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20052, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 312 Natural Sciences Complex, Buffalo, New York 14260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The George Washington University, 800 22nd Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20052, United States
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Nicholas AD, Garman LC, Albano N, Cahill CL. Insight on noncovalent interactions and orbital constructs in low-dimensional antimony halide perovskites. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:15305-15320. [PMID: 35703012 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01996e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Reported is a series of eight antimony halide perovskite derivatives synthesized from acidic aqueous solutions of antimony oxide and halogen substituted pyridines. These materials feature anionic one-dimensional antimony halide (SbX; X = Cl, Br, I) chains or ribbons charge-balanced by organic para-halopyridinium cations (XPy; X = H, Cl, Br) which assemble into three-dimensional networks via halogen and hydrogen noncovalent interactions (NCIs) between ion pairs. Computational density functional theory (DFT) based natural bonding orbital (NBO) and density of state (DOS) methods were utilized to map the band structure and quantify and categorize noncovalent interaction strength and type. Moreover, we determined the presence of hybridized intermediate bands which are responsible for the small bandgap energies within this family and arise from mixing of the halide p-states and the Sb s-states. We note that the degree of hybridization, and thus optical properties, is influenced primarily by changes about inner sphere bonding and independent of second sphere interactions. This report is the first to specifically monitor the evolution of haloantimonate(III) hybrid perovskite atomic and molecular orbitals involved in optical behavior as a function of inner and outer sphere effects.
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- Aaron D Nicholas
- Department of Chemistry, The George Washington University, 800 22nd Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, The George Washington University, 800 22nd Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, The George Washington University, 800 22nd Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, The George Washington University, 800 22nd Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
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Li K, Hu S, Zou Q, Zhang Y, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Zhou T, Chai Z, Wang Y. Synthesis and Characterizations of a Plutonium(III) Crown Ether Inclusion Complex. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:8984-8989. [PMID: 34044532 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We report the synthesis, single-crystal structure, solid-state ultraviolet-visible-near-infrared spectroscopy, and theoretical calculations on the first trivalent plutonium crown ether inclusion complex, [(H3O)(18-crown-6)][Pu(H2O)4(18-crown-6)](ClO4)4·2(H2O) (denoted as PuIII-18C6). Single-crystal X-ray diffraction reveals that PuIII-18C6 crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group of Pccn, which is assembled by independent ionic pairs including [Pu(H2O)4(18-crown-6)]3+, [(H3O)(18-crown-6)]+, and perchlorate anions. The plutonium atom is fully encapsulated within the cavity of the 18-crown-6, generating a distorted bicapped square antiprism geometry. The theoretical evaluation confirms that weak Pu-O dative bond is involved between PuIII ions with 18-crown-6. This work may deepen the understanding of the host-guest interactions between trivalent transuranic and macrocyclic ligands.
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- Kai Li
- State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China
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- Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100193, P. R. China
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- China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd., Shenzhen 518028, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China
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- China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd., Shenzhen 518028, P. R. China
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- China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd., Shenzhen 518028, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China
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Wacker JN, Nicholas AD, Vasiliu M, Marwitz AC, Bertke JA, Dixon DA, Knope KE. Impact of Noncovalent Interactions on the Structural Chemistry of Thorium(IV)-Aquo-Chloro Complexes. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:6375-6390. [PMID: 33885290 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Five novel tetravalent thorium (Th) compounds that consist of Th(H2O)xCly structural units were isolated from acidic aqueous solutions using a series of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic hydrogen (H) bond donors. Taken together with three previously reported phases, the compounds provide a series of monomeric ThIV complexes wherein the effects of noncovalent interactions (and H-bond donor identity) on Th structural chemistry can be examined. Seven distinct structural units of the general formulas [Th(H2O)xCl8-x]x-4 (x = 2, 4) and [Th(H2O)xCl9-x]x-5 (x = 5-7) are described. The complexes range from chloride-deficient [Th(H2O)7Cl2]2+ to chloride-rich [Th(H2O)2Cl6]2- species, and theory was used to understand the relative energies that separate complexes within this series via the stepwise chloride addition to an aquated Th cation. Electronic structure theory predicted the reaction energies of chloride addition and release of water through a series of transformations, generally highlighting an energetic driving force for chloride complexation. To probe the role of the counterion in the stabilization of these complexes, electrostatic potential (ESP) surfaces were calculated. The ESP surfaces indicated a dependence of the chloride distribution about the Th metal center on the pKa of the countercation, highlighting the directing effects of noncovalent interactions (e.g., Hbonding) on Th speciation.
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- Jennifer N Wacker
- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052, 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, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057, 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, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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Wacker JN, Vasiliu M, Colliard I, Ayscue RL, Han SY, Bertke JA, Nyman M, Dixon DA, Knope KE. Monomeric and Trimeric Thorium Chlorides Isolated from Acidic Aqueous Solution. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:10871-10882. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Jennifer N. Wacker
- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, United States
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- Oregon State University, Department of Chemistry, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Oregon State University, Department of Chemistry, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, 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, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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Wacker JN, Han SY, Murray AV, Vanagas NA, Bertke JA, Sperling JM, Surbella RG, Knope KE. From Thorium to Plutonium: Trends in Actinide(IV) Chloride Structural Chemistry. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:10578-10591. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Jennifer N. Wacker
- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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