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Deblonde GJP, Morrison K, Mattocks JA, Cotruvo JA, Zavarin M, Kersting AB. Impact of a Biological Chelator, Lanmodulin, on Minor Actinide Aqueous Speciation and Transport in the Environment. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023; 57:20830-20843. [PMID: 37897703 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c06033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/30/2023]
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Minor actinides are major contributors to the long-term radiotoxicity of nuclear fuels and other radioactive wastes. In this context, understanding their interactions with natural chelators and minerals is key to evaluating their transport behavior in the environment. The lanmodulin family of metalloproteins is produced by ubiquitous bacteria and Methylorubrum extorquens lanmodulin (LanM) was recently identified as one of nature's most selective chelators for trivalent f-elements. Herein, we investigated the behavior of neptunium, americium, and curium in the presence of LanM, carbonate ions, and common minerals (calcite, montmorillonite, quartz, and kaolinite). We show that LanM's aqueous complexes with Am(III) and Cm(III) remain stable in carbonate-bicarbonate solutions. Furthermore, the sorption of Am(III) to these minerals is strongly impacted by LanM, while Np(V) sorption is not. With calcite, even a submicromolar concentration of LanM leads to a significant reduction in the Am(III) distribution coefficient (Kd, from >104 to ∼102 mL/g at pH 8.5), rendering it even more mobile than Np(V). Thus, LanM-type chelators can potentially increase the mobility of trivalent actinides and lanthanide fission products under environmentally relevant conditions. Monitoring biological chelators, including metalloproteins, and their biogenerators should therefore be considered during the evaluation of radioactive waste repository sites and the risk assessment of contaminated sites.
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- Gauthier J-P Deblonde
- Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
- Glenn T. Seaborg Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
- Glenn T. Seaborg Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Glenn T. Seaborg Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Glenn T. Seaborg Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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Chialvo AA. Molecular-Based Description of the Osmotic Second Virial Coefficients of Electrolytes: Rigorous Formal Links to Solute-Solvent Interaction Asymmetry, Virial Expansion Paths, and Experimental Evidence. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:4339-4353. [PMID: 35671130 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c01808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We introduce a molecular-based route to the evaluation of the osmotic second virial coefficients of dissociative solutes in dilute binary solutions, according to a general molecular thermodynamic solvation formalism of electrolyte solutions. We discuss the underlying solvation fundamentals and derive rigorous expressions leading to (i) the functional relationship among the osmotic second virial coefficients and the limiting composition behavior of the non-Coulombic contribution to the Kirkwood-Buff integral of the solute-solute interactions, the corresponding composition slope of the mean activity coefficient of the electrolyte solute, and a precisely defined solute-solvent intermolecular interaction asymmetry that characterizes unambiguously the solution non-ideality; (ii) the self-consistent calculation of the osmotic second virial coefficients of electrolytes as defined by the composition expansion along different thermodynamic paths and/or composition variables; (iii) the microstructural interpretation of Hill's isobaric-isothermal osmotic second virial coefficient in terms of Kirkwood-Buff correlation function integrals and its relationships to other osmotic coefficients from composition expansions along alternative thermodynamic paths; and (iv) the identification of drawbacks in the implementation of previous methods, originally intended for non-electrolyte systems, to systems involving dissociative solutes. The proposed formalism provides the fundamentally based foundations to the determination of the osmotic second virial coefficients of any type of electrolyte solute, whose thermodynamic expressions converge naturally to the non-electrolyte ones by setting to unity the solute stoichiometric coefficient ν. Following the formal results, we illustrate the formalism with the calculation of a variety of osmotic second virial coefficients involving a wide selection of aqueous solutions at ambient conditions and comprising a wide range of anion-cation type combinations characterized by 2 ≤ ν ≤ 6. Finally, we interpret the behavior of the resulting osmotic virial coefficients in terms of the solute-solvent intermolecular interaction asymmetry, discuss the experimental data requirements for the accurate evaluation of the osmotic second virial coefficients, and provide some observations as well as their modeling implications.
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- Ariel A Chialvo
- Retired scientist, Knoxville, Tennessee 37922-3108, United States
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Eggen M, Ke¸dziorski A, Janicki R, Korabik M, Krośnicki M. The ab-initio and experimental study of the spectroscopic and magnetic properties of Ho(III)-EDTA. Polyhedron 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2022.115851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Lin RY, Shi YR, Hou YH, Xia WS, Weng WZ, Zhou ZH. Highly water-soluble dimeric and trimeric lanthanide carbonates with ethylenediaminetetraacetates as precursors of catalysts for the oxidative coupling reaction of methane. NEW J CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d1nj05608e] [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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Highly water-soluble dimeric and trimeric lanthanide carbonates with ethylenediaminetetraacetates have been obtained. Their coordination modes provide a model for the oxidative coupling of methane of lanthanide carbonates.
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- Rong-Yan Lin
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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Li XB, Wu QY, Wang CZ, Lan JH, Ning SY, Wei YZ. Theoretical study on structures of Am(III) carbonate complexes. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10967-020-07254-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Nielsen LG, Sørensen TJ. Including and Declaring Structural Fluctuations in the Study of Lanthanide(III) Coordination Chemistry in Solution. Inorg Chem 2019; 59:94-105. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Lea Gundorff Nielsen
- Nano-Science Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Nano-Science Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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New Insights in the Hydrothermal Synthesis of Rare-Earth Carbonates. MATERIALS 2019; 12:ma12132062. [PMID: 31252523 PMCID: PMC6651494 DOI: 10.3390/ma12132062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Revised: 06/21/2019] [Accepted: 06/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The rare-earth carbonates represent a class of materials with great research interest owing to their intrinsic properties and because they can be used as template materials for the formation of other rare earth phases, particularly of rare-earth oxides. However, most of the literature is focused on the synthesis and characterization of hydroxycarbonates. Conversely, in the present study we have synthesized both rare-earth carbonates—with the chemical formula RE2(CO3)3·2-3H2O, in which RE represents a generic rare-earth element, and a tengerite-type structure with a peculiar morphology—and rare-earth hydroxycarbonates with the chemical formula RECO3OH, by hydrothermal treatment at low temperature (120 °C), using metal nitrates and ammonium carbonates as raw materials, and without using any additive or template. We found that the nature of the rare-earth used plays a crucial role in relation to the formed phases, as predicted by the contraction law of lanthanides. In particular, the hydrothermal synthesis of rare-earth carbonates with a tengerite-type structure was obtained for the lanthanides from neodymium to erbium. A possible explanation of the different behaviors of lighter and heavier rare-earths is given.
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Janicki R, Kędziorski A, Mondry A. Experimental andAb InitioStudy on the Intensitiesof f-f Transitions for the Molecular Eu(III)-DOTP System. ChemistrySelect 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201803182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Rafał Janicki
- Faculty of Chemistry; University of Wrocław; F. Joliot-Curie 14 50-383 Wrocław Poland
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- Institute of Physics; Faculty of Physics; Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University; Grudziądzka 5 87-100 Toruń Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry; University of Wrocław; F. Joliot-Curie 14 50-383 Wrocław Poland
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Janicki R, Mondry A. Structural and thermodynamic aspects of water–carbonate exchange equilibrium for MIII/IV–EDTA–carbonate systems. Inorg Chem Front 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c8qi01062e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The carbonate anion readily displaces water molecules in the [Er(EDTA)(H2O)2]− complex and though it is mainly an entropy driven process, the formation of the [Er(EDTA)(CO3)]3– complex is additionally enthalpy stabilized.
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- Rafał Janicki
- University of Wrocław
- Faculty of Chemistry
- 50-383 Wrocław
- Poland
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- University of Wrocław
- Faculty of Chemistry
- 50-383 Wrocław
- Poland
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