Recent progress in actinide borate chemistry

S Wang, EV Alekseev, W Depmeier… - Chemical …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of molten boric acid as a reactive flux for synthesizing actinide borates has been
developed in the past two years providing access to a remarkable array of exotic materials …

Evaluation of f-element borate chemistry

MA Silver, TE Albrecht-Schmitt - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The synthesis, structure elucidation, and spectroscopic measurements of a myriad of new, f-
element borates has revealed the unusual effects that this electron-rich oxoanion has on the …

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 …

Differentiating between trivalent lanthanides and actinides

MJ Polinski, DJ Grant, S Wang… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The reactions of LnCl3 with molten boric acid result in the formation of Ln [B4O6 (OH)
2Cl](Ln= La–Nd), Ln4 [B18O25 (OH) 13Cl3](Ln= Sm, Eu), or Ln [B6O9 (OH) 3](Ln= Y, Eu …

Flux crystal growth: a versatile technique to reveal the crystal chemistry of complex uranium oxides

CA Juillerat, VV Klepov, G Morrison, KA Pace… - Dalton …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
This frontier article focuses on the use of flux crystal growth for the preparation of new
actinide containing materials, reviews the history of flux crystal growth of uranium containing …

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

MJ Polinski, S Wang, EV Alekseev, W Depmeier… - Angewandte …, 2011 - infona.pl
Eine Frage der Größe: Drastische Unterschiede in der Reaktivität von Pu III‐und Am III‐
Zentren treten in geschmolzener Borsäure auf. Die resultierenden Komplexe haben …

Comparison of thorium (IV) and uranium (VI) carboxyphosphonates

PO Adelani, TE Albrecht-Schmitt - Inorganic chemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
The hydrothermal reactions of thorium nitrate and uranyl acetate with
carboxyphenylphosphonic acid and HF result in the formation of ThF2 (PO3C6H4CO2H) …

Syntheses, structures, luminescence, and photocatalytic properties of a series of uranyl coordination polymers

W Yang, WG Tian, XX Liu, L Wang… - Crystal growth & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A new series of uranium coordination polymers have been hydrothermally synthesized by
using 4, 4′-oxidiphthalic acid (H4L) in the presence of N-bearing species, namely,(H2dpa) …

Role of anions and reaction conditions in the preparation of uranium (VI), neptunium (VI), and plutonium (VI) borates

S Wang, EM Villa, J Diwu, EV Alekseev… - Inorganic …, 2011 - ACS Publications
U (VI), Np (VI), and Pu (VI) borates with the formula AnO2 [B8O11 (OH) 4](An= U, Np, Pu)
have been prepared via the reactions of U (VI) nitrate, Np (VI) perchlorate, or Pu (IV) or Pu …

Surprising coordination for plutonium in the first plutonium (III) borate

S Wang, EV Alekseev, W Depmeier… - Inorganic …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The first plutonium (III) borate, Pu2 [B12O18 (OH) 4Br2 (H2O) 3]· 0.5 H2O, has been
prepared by reacting plutonium (III) with molten boric acid under strictly anaerobic …