Published September 12, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Bonding changes in plutonium(III) and americium(III) borates

  • 1. Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (United States)
  • 2. Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-6) (Germany)
  • 3. Department of Crystallography, University of Kiel (Germany)

Description

A dramatic change occurs between the reactivity of PuIII and AmIII centers in molten boric acid. The resulting complexes display different inner-sphere ligands and different coordination environments (Pu[B4O6(OH)2Cl] and Am[B9O13(OH)4].H2O). (Copyright copyright 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH and Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201103502

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)
Journal Volume
50
Journal Issue
38
Journal Page Range
p. 8891-8894
ISSN
1433-7851
CODEN
ACIEF5

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Notes
With 4 figs., 39 refs.