Detection and identification of solids, surfaces, and solutions of uranium using vibrational spectroscopy

G Lu, AJ Haes, TZ Forbes - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of uranium speciation using vibrational
spectroscopy methods including Raman and IR. Uranium is a naturally occurring …

A revised and expanded structure hierarchy of natural and synthetic hexavalent uranium compounds

AJ Lussier, RAK Lopez… - The Canadian …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Over the past four decades, the number of inorganic oxide and oxy-salt phases containing
stoichiometric quantities of hexavalent uranium has increased exponentially from a few …

How amidoximate binds the uranyl cation

S Vukovic, LA Watson, SO Kang, R Custelcean… - Inorganic …, 2012 - ACS Publications
This study identifies how the amidoximate anion, AO, interacts with the uranyl cation,
UO22+. Density functional theory calculations have been used to evaluate possible binding …

Chemical aspects of uranium behavior in soils: a review

YN Vodyanitskii - Eurasian soil science, 2011 - Springer
Uranium has varying degrees of oxidation (+ 4 and+ 6) and is responsive to changes in the
redox potential of the environment. It is deposited at the reduction barrier with the …

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 …

Predicting stability constants for uranyl complexes using density functional theory

S Vukovic, BP Hay, VS Bryantsev - Inorganic chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
The ability to predict the equilibrium constants for the formation of 1: 1 uranyl/ligand
complexes (log K 1 values) provides the essential foundation for the rational design of …

UO22+ Uptake by Proteins: Understanding the Binding Features of the Super Uranyl Binding Protein and Design of a Protein with Higher Affinity

SO Odoh, GD Bondarevsky, J Karpus… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The capture of uranyl, UO22+, by a recently engineered protein (Zhou et al. Nat. Chem.
2014, 6, 236) with high selectivity and femtomolar sensitivity has been examined by a …

Speciation and structural study of U (IV) and-(VI) in perchloric and nitric acid solutions

A Ikeda-Ohno, C Hennig, S Tsushima… - Inorganic …, 2009 - ACS Publications
In order to elucidate the uranium solution chemistry at the high HNO3 concentrations
typically employed for the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels, speciation and complex …

Molecular characterization of uranium (VI) sorption complexes on iron (III)-rich acid mine water colloids

KU Ulrich, A Rossberg, H Foerstendorf… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2006 - Elsevier
A mixing of metal-loaded acid mine drainage with shallow groundwater or surface waters
usually initiates oxidation and/or hydrolysis of dissolved metals such as iron (Fe) and …

Uranyl-glycine-water complexes in solution: Comprehensive computational modeling of coordination geometries, stabilization energies, and luminescence properties

J Su, K Zhang, WHE Schwarz, J Li - Inorganic Chemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
Comprehensive computational modeling of coordination structures, thermodynamic
stabilities, and luminescence spectra of uranyl-glycine-water complexes [UO2 (Gly) n aq m] …