Boronic acid flux synthesis and crystal growth of uranium and neptunium boronates and borates: a low-temperature route to the first neptunium(V) borate

Shuao Wang; Evgeny V Alekseev; Hannah M Miller; Wulf Depmeier; Thomas E Albrecht-Schmitt

doi:10.1021/ic101678d

Boronic acid flux synthesis and crystal growth of uranium and neptunium boronates and borates: a low-temperature route to the first neptunium(V) borate

Inorg Chem. 2010 Nov 1;49(21):9755-7. doi: 10.1021/ic101678d.

Authors

Shuao Wang¹, Evgeny V Alekseev, Hannah M Miller, Wulf Depmeier, Thomas E Albrecht-Schmitt

Affiliation

¹ Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States.

PMID: 20919728
DOI: 10.1021/ic101678d

Abstract

Molten methylboronic acid has been used as a reactive flux to prepare the first neptunium(V) borate, NpO(2)[B(3)O(4)(OH)(2)] (NpBO-1), and the first actinide boronate, UO(2)(CH(3)BO(2))(H(2)O) (UCBO-1). NpBO-1 contains cation-cation interactions between the neptunyl units. In contrast, the presence of the methyl groups in the uranyl boronate leads to a one-dimensional structure.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Borates / chemistry*
Boronic Acids / chemistry*
Crystallography, X-Ray
Models, Molecular
Neptunium / chemistry*
Organometallic Compounds / chemical synthesis*
Organometallic Compounds / chemistry
Temperature*
Uranium / chemistry*

Substances

Borates
Boronic Acids
Organometallic Compounds
Uranium
Neptunium