Inorganic and bioinorganic solvent exchange mechanisms

L Helm, AE Merbach - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
The simplest reaction on a metal ion in aqueous or nonaqueous solution is the exchange of
a solvent molecule between the first and second coordination shells (eq 1). This reaction is …

Solution coordination chemistry of actinides: Thermodynamics, structure and reaction mechanisms

Z Szabó, T Toraishi, V Vallet, I Grenthe - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
The emphasis of this review is on the combination of experimental and theoretical methods
to obtain microscopic information on the chemistry of actinides in aqueous solution. A brief …

Electronic structure and bonding in actinyl ions and their analogs

RG Denning - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2007 - ACS Publications
This Feature Article seeks to present the current state of knowledge, both experimental and
theoretical, of the electronic structure and bonding in actinyl ions and related species, such …

Uranium

I Grenthe, J Drożdżynński, T Fujino, EC Buck… - The chemistry of the …, 2006 - Springer
By 1911, the atomic weight of uranium had been refined to 238.5 (Gmelin, vol. A2, 1980a).
The natural isotope 235 U was discovered in 1935 by mass spectrometry. The artificial …

Preparation and Reactions of Base-Free Bis(1,2,4-tri-tert-butylcyclopentadienyl)uranium Oxide, Cp'2UO

G Zi, L Jia, EL Werkema, MD Walter… - …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Reduction of the uranium metallocene [η 5-1, 2, 4-(Me3C) 3C5H2] 2UCl2 (1), Cp '2UCl2, in
the presence of 2, 2 '-bipyridyl and sodium naphthalene gives the dark green metallocene …

Density functional studies of actinyl aquo complexes studied using small-core effective core potentials and a scalar four-component relativistic method

GA Shamov, G Schreckenbach - The Journal of Physical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The title compounds,[AnO2 (H2O) 5] n+, n= 1 or 2 and An= U, Np, and Pu, are studied using
relativistic density functional theory (DFT). Three rather different relativistic methods are …

Surface complexation of U (VI) on goethite (α-FeOOH)

DM Sherman, CL Peacock, CG Hubbard - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2008 - Elsevier
Sorption of U (VI) to goethite is a fundamental control on the mobility of uranium in soil and
groundwater. Here, we investigated the sorption of U on goethite using EXAFS …

Predicting the energy of the water exchange reaction and free energy of solvation for the uranyl ion in aqueous solution

KE Gutowski, DA Dixon - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2006 - ACS Publications
The structures and vibrational frequencies of UO2 (H2O) 42+ and UO2 (H2O) 52+ have
been calculated using density functional theory and are in reasonable agreement with …

The coordination of uranyl in water: A combined quantum chemical and molecular simulation study

D Hagberg, G Karlström, BO Roos… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The coordination environment of uranyl in water has been studied using a combined
quantum mechanical and molecular dynamics approach. Multiconfigurational wave function …

Recent advances in computational actinoid chemistry

D Wang, WF van Gunsteren, Z Chai - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
We briefly review advances in computational actinoid (An) chemistry during the past ten
years in regard to two issues: the geometrical and electronic structures, and reactions. The …