Probing actinide electronic structure using fluorescence and multi-photon ionization spectroscopy

The role of the 5f orbitals in actinide bond formation is one of the central issues of actinide chemistry. This question can be explored using relativistic quantum chemistry calculations, but the theoretical methods must be validated using definitive experimental data. For simple ionic compounds such as actinide oxides and halides, the electronic structure can be examined using electronic and photoelectron spectroscopy of gas phase molecules. The present article surveys recent spectroscopic and theoretical studies of the oxides of thorium and uranium. The results show that the 5f-like states are spectators and that the complex patterns of low-lying electronic states for these molecules can be understood in terms of a semi-empirical ligand field model. Comparisons with recent high-level theoretical calculations are presented and discussed.     

锕酰冠醚配合物电子结构和化学成键理论研究进展

本文对锕系化合物的结构和性质的理论研究进行了规律性总结,并结合我们的研究成果,重点介绍了锕酰冠醚配合物的配位化学、电子结构和化学成键的基本特征。尽管近年来出现越来越多的光谱实验和晶体学数据报道,但是对锕系配合物的电子结构和化学成键的理论研究还不够系统。本文对锕酰冠醚配合物的配位结构、稳定能和光谱性质的计算结果进行了综述。大环配体(硫代)冠醚的腔体大小决定了配合物的结构特征。通过理论研究,在锕酰冠醚配合物中存在具有典型的An≡Oactinyl共价键和An-Oligand和An-Sligand离子键。对于离子键An-Oligand和An-Sligand,An和供电子配体之间通过价原子轨道的径向分布重叠形成微弱的共价相互作用。从U到Cm,配体向金属的电荷转移(LMCT)逐渐显著,导致Am和Cm的氧化态降低,金属离子与配体的作用变弱。这一成键规律和金属氧化态的变化规律,为实验上筛选合理且高效的镧锕分离配体提供重要理论指导。     

配位化学中新型金属配合物的电子结构与成键特点

研究配合物的几何电子构型、阐明配位键的本质是配位化学中重要的理论组成部分。本文在回顾配位化学基本的成键理论基础上,介绍几例近年来具有教科书级别的国内高水平原创工作,重点阐述具有独特芳香性、低氧化态、高配位数以及锕系金属的新型金属配合物的电子结构和成键特点,对丰富和拓展配位化学的基本理论具有重要意义。     

Multiconfigurational quantum chemical methods for molecular systems containing actinides

Recent advances in computational actinide chemistry are reported in this tutorial review. Muticonfigurational quantum chemical methods have been employed to study the gas phase spectroscopy of small actinide molecules. Examples of actinide compounds studied in solution are also presented. Finally the multiple bond in the diuranium molecule and other diactinide compounds is described.     

负离子光电子能谱技术发展及应用

负离子光电子能谱已经成为探索光谱和化学动力学基础问题的最为重要的技术之一。本文简要介绍了负离子光电子能谱的发展历史,回顾了负离子光电子能谱发展过程中的几种主要技术,包括为了提高分辨率而开发出的零动能能谱和慢电子速度成像技术以及为在气相条件下研究多电荷负离子及其对应中性分子电子特性而开发的电喷雾源与负离子光电子能谱结合的技术。随后介绍其在锕系元素及化合物、含铍化合物的电子结构及成键特征研究中的应用及进展。     

典型锕系超分子组装体的构筑原理及研究进展

锕系超分子化学是锕系元素化学的重要研究领域,可以为乏燃料后处理的配位化学基础研究提供重要信息,并为探索锕系功能材料在发光、传感、催化和分离等方面的功能应用提供关键材料体系。本文介绍了基于锕系金属离子的金属-有机超分子组装体这一新兴领域的最新研究进展。从锕系超分子组装体的构筑原理出发并结合笔者自身研究情况,对基于主客体准轮烷配体的锕系-轮烷配位聚合物、具有闭合结构的锕系配位组装体和基于超分子相互作用的锕系超分子聚合物这三类典型的锕系超分子组装体的研究进展进行了梳理和总结阐述。期望为未来新型锕系超分子组装体的设计合成提供参考,促进相关领域的进步和发展。     

The vitality of uranium molecular chemistry at the dawn of the XXIst century

The intent of this Dalton Perspective is to highlight the recent advances in uranium molecular chemistry, with the results reported during the 2000-2006 period. This discipline is currently witnessing an impressive development, together with the theoretical chemistry and solid-state chemistry of the f-elements, and its face has profoundly changed, revealing unsuspected structural and reactivity features. This progress required and was facilitated by the use of new precursors. Studies of low-valent compounds gave a better insight into lanthanide(III)/actinide(III) differentiation and led to the discovery of unusual reactions, including activation of small molecules. A number of tetravalent uranium complexes, in particular polynuclear compounds, have been synthesized, which exhibit exciting structures and physicochemical properties. The potential of uranium(III) and uranium(IV) complexes in catalysis has been confirmed. The uranyl complexes, from mononuclear species to supramolecular assemblies, reveal a variety of novel structures, changing the generally accepted ideas on the coordination geometry and the stability of the UO2(2+) ion.     

铀酰配合物的电子结构与化学键

本文采用群分解EHMO计算程序研究了铀酰配合物的电子结构与化学键。计算结果表明,铀酰配合物具有与UO_2~(2+)离子类似的电子结构特征,铀酰基元是典型的共价成键,而第二配体在赤面上密堆积形成离子键。这种电子结构与化学键特点被用来阐明铀酰配合物的立体化学性质以及光谱化学序列。     

Probing Ni[S2PR2]2 electronic structure to generate insight relevant to minor actinide extraction chemistry

A method to evaluate the electronic structure of minor actinide extractants is described. A series of compounds containing effective and ineffective actinide extractants (dithiophosphinates, S(2)PR(2)(-)) bound to a common transition metal ion (Ni(2+)) was analyzed by structural, spectroscopic, and theoretical methods. By using a single transition metal that provides structurally similar compounds, the metal contributions to bonding are essentially held constant so that subtle electronic variations associated with the extracting ligand can be probed using UV-vis spectroscopy. By comparison, it is difficult to obtain similar information using analogous techniques with minor actinide and lanthanide complexes. Here, we demonstrate that this approach, supplemented with ground state and time-dependent density functional theory, provides insight for understanding why high separation factors are reported for the extractant HS(2)P(o-CF(3)C(6)H(4))(2), while lower values are reported and anticipated for other HS(2)PR(2) derivatives (R = C(6)H(5), p-CF(3)C(6)H(4), m-CF(3)C(6)H(4)). The implications of these results for correlating electronic structure with the selectivity of HS(2)PR(2) extractants are discussed.     

Anhydrous scandium, yttrium, lanthanide and actinide halide complexes with neutral oxygen and nitrogen donor ligands

Studies on lanthanide and actinide halide complexes with neutral O- and/or N-donor ligands have intensified in recent years due to their implications in homogeneous catalysis, magnetic and optical materials, as synthons for the synthesis of novel coordination and organometallic compounds and, for Ln(II) halide complexes, as reducing agents in organic synthesis. Synthetic strategies, structural diversity as well as some important properties and reactivities of these anhydrous metal (including scandium and yttrium) halide complexes are reviewed here. These complexes also hold potential as starting materials for constructing more sophisticated heterometallic assemblies by crystal engineering; the compounds of this class, either discrete ion-pairs or coordination polymers, being discussed separately under the heading heterometallic lanthanide and actinide halide complexes. The aim of this article is to provide a reference text for the researchers working in the lanthanide and actinide coordination chemistry field and to identify and signify the area of future research.     

几种芳香胺类有机EL材料性质的量子化学研究

几种芳香胺类化合物E-12、E-13、E-14和E-15均为性能良好的有机电致发光（EL）和光致发光（PL）材料·采用量子化学计算方法,用RHF/AM1方法优化其构型,用RHF/CIS方法计算其电子光谱,计算结果与实验值基本吻合。     

Recent progress in actinide borate chemistry

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 with both unusual structures and unprecedented properties. [ThB(5)O(6)(OH)(6)][BO(OH)(2)]·2.5H(2)O possesses a cationic supertetrahedral structure and displays remarkable anion exchange properties with high selectivity for TcO(4)(-). Uranyl borates form noncentrosymmetric structures with extraordinarily rich topological relationships. Neptunium borates are often mixed-valent and yield rare examples of compounds with one metal in three different oxidation states. Plutonium borates display new coordination chemistry for trivalent actinides. Finally, americium borates show a dramatic departure from plutonium borates, and there are scant examples of families of actinides compounds that extend past plutonium to examine the bonding of later actinides. There are several grand challenges that this work addresses. The foremost of these challenges is the development of structure-property relationships in transuranium materials. A deep understanding of the materials chemistry of actinides will likely lead to the development of advanced waste forms for radionuclides present in nuclear waste that prevent their transport in the environment. This work may have also uncovered the solubility-limiting phases of actinides in some repositories, and allows for measurements on the stability of these materials.     

Covalency in the f element-chalcogen bond. computational studies of M[N(EPR2)2]3 (M = La, Ce, Pr, Pm, Eu, U, Np, Pu, Am, Cm; E = O, S, Se, Te; R = H, (i)Pr, Ph)

The geometric and electronic structures of the title complexes have been studied using scalar relativistic, gradient-corrected density functional theory. Extension of our previous work on six-coordinate M[N(EPH 2) 2] 3 (M = La, Ce, U, Pu; E = O, S, Se, Te), models for the experimentally characterized M[N(EP (i)Pr 2) 2] 3, yields converged geometries for all of the other 4f and 5f metals studied and for all four group 16 elements. By contrast, converged geometries for nine-coordinate M[N(EPPh 2) 2] 3 are obtained only for E = S and Se. Comparison of the electronic structures of six- and nine-coordinate M[N(EPH 2) 2] 3 suggests that coordination of the N atoms produces only minor changes in the metal-chalcogen interactions. Six-coordinate Eu[N(EPH 2) 2] 3 and Am[N(EPH 2) 2] 3 with the heavier group 16 donors display geometric and electronic properties rather different from those of the other members of the 4f and 5f series, in particular, longer than expected Eu-E and Am-E bond lengths, smaller reductions in charge difference between M and E down group 16, and larger f populations. The latter are interpreted not as evidence of f-based metal-ligand covalency but rather as being indicative of ionic metal centers closer to M (II) than M (III). The Cm complexes are found to be very ionic, with very metal-localized f orbitals and Cm (III) centers. The implications of the results for the separation of the minor actinides from nuclear wastes are discussed, as is the validity of using La (III)/U (III) comparisons as models for minor actinide/Eu systems.     

Seventeen‐Coordinate Actinide Helium Complexes

The geometries and electronic structures of molecular ions featuring He atoms complexed to actinide cations are explored computationally using density functional and coupled cluster theories. A new record coordination number is established, as AcHe₁₇³⁺, ThHe₁₇⁴⁺, and PaHe₁₇⁴⁺ are all found to be true geometric minima, with the He atoms clearly located in the first shell around the actinide. Analysis of AcHe_n ³⁺ (n =1–17) using the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) confirms these systems as having closed shell, charge‐induced dipole bonding. Excellent correlations (R ²>0.95) are found between QTAIM metrics (bond critical point electron densities and delocalization indices) and the average Ac−He distances, and also with the incremental He binding energies.     

Seventeen-Coordinate Actinide Helium Complexes

The geometries and electronic structures of molecular ions featuring He atoms complexed to actinide cations are explored computationally using density functional and coupled cluster theories. A new record coordination number is established, as AcHe₁₇³⁺, ThHe₁₇⁴⁺, and PaHe₁₇⁴⁺ are all found to be true geometric minima, with the He atoms clearly located in the first shell around the actinide. Analysis of AcHe_n³⁺ (n=1–17) using the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) confirms these systems as having closed shell, charge-induced dipole bonding. Excellent correlations (R²>0.95) are found between QTAIM metrics (bond critical point electron densities and delocalization indices) and the average Ac−He distances, and also with the incremental He binding energies.     

芳香烃章节教学中若干问题的计算与探讨

采用6-311G(d)/B3LYP计算方法,通过对多个有机物和中间体的分子结构和能量的计算,探讨了如下问题:(1) Birch还原的区域选择性问题;(2)氯甲基的电子效应问题;(3)反芳香性对有机物结构影响问题;(4)多环化合物局部芳香性问题。这些计算与探讨丰富了有机化学教学内容,有利于大学生对芳香烃章节的学习。     

Recent Progresses in the Investigation of Rare-earth Boron Inverse Sandwich Clusters

While rare-earth borides represent a class of important materials in modern industries, there are few fundamental researches on their electronic structures and physicochemical properties. Recently, we have performed combined experimental and theoretical studies on rare-earth boron clusters and their cluster-assembled complexes, revealing a series of rare-earth inverse sandwich clusters with fascinating electronic structures and chemical bonding patterns. In this overview article, we summarize recent progresses in this area and provide a perspective view on the future development of rare-earth boride clusters. Understanding the electronic structures of these clusters helps to design materials of f-element(lanthanide and actinide) borides with critical physiochemical properties.     

光系统Ⅱ抑制剂: 顺式氰基丙烯酸酯化合物的 三维构效关系的电子结构研究

以距离比较法所获得的顺式氰基丙烯酸酯化合物的活性构象为模板,对39个该类化合物采用比较分子场方法进行了三维构效关系的研究。结果表明,所获得的药效团模型具有很好的预测能力。同时采用量子化学的方法对活性构象模板分子电子结构作了讨论。     

7-吡啶吲哚同分异体结构与电子光谱性质的理论研究

运用密度泛函理论对7-吡啶吲哚可能存在的构型进行优化,计算异构体的几何构型、电子结构、前线分子轨道;应用含时密度泛函理论计算了异构体b,c和e的电子光谱性质以及溶剂效应对光谱性质的影响.结果表明,溶剂极性的增加使b的电子光谱蓝移,而c和e的电子光谱红移,且溶剂极性对最大吸收波长影响幅度较小.前线分子轨道分析,表明该类化合物的主要吸收光谱主要对应于分子中的HOMO→LUMO电子跃迁,且为π→π*跃迁.