Structure and Bonding Investigation of Plutonium Peroxocarbonate Complexes Using Cerium Surrogates and Electronic Structure Modeling

Autor: Lucas E. Sweet, Jochen Autschbach, Jon M. Schwantes, Leah M. Arrigo, Jordan F. Corbey, Kate L. Ziegelgruber, Bruce K. McNamara, Shane M. Peper, Frédéric Gendron
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Inorganic chemistry. 56(2)
ISSN: 1520-510X
Popis: Herein, we report the synthesis and structural characterization of K8[(CO3)3Pu]2(μ-η2-η2-O2)2·12H2O. This is the second Pu-containing addition to the previously studied alkali-metal peroxocarbonate series M8[(CO3)3A]2(μ-η2-η2-O2)2·xH2O (M = alkali metal; A = Ce or Pu; x = 8, 10, 12, or 18), for which only the M = Na analogue has been previously reported when A = Pu. The previously reported crystal structure for Na8[(CO3)3Pu]2(μ-η2-η2-O2)2·12H2O is not isomorphous with its known Ce analogue. However, a new synthetic route to these M8[(CO3)3A]2(μ-η2-η2-O2)2·12H2O complexes, described below, has produced crystals of Na8[(CO3)3Ce]2(μ-η2-η2-O2)2·12H2O that are isomorphous with the previously reported Pu analogue. Via this synthetic method, the M = Na, K, Rb, and Cs salts of M8[(CO3)3Ce]2(μ-η2-η2-O2)2·xH2O have also been synthesized for a systematic structural comparison with each other and the available Pu analogues using single-crystal X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and density functional theory calcu...
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