Recent radiochemical studies of the fission process

This article summarizes the recent radiochemical investigations on mass, charge kinetic energy and fragment angular distributions in low energy fission of actinides.     

锕系异核双金属化合物

锕系金属有机化合物的研究已成为金属有机化学研究领域的热点之一,其化合物的合成和分离极具挑战性,其中锕系异核双金属化合物在催化和小分子活化方面有潜在的应用前景。随着人们对锕系独特电子结构及其性质的深入认识,锕系异核双金属化合物的研究也取得了一些进展。本文总结了锕系异核双金属化合物近30年的研究成果,主要包括锕系-过渡金属体系和锕系-主族金属体系的实验和理论研究。     

Temperature Dependence of 1H Paramagnetic Chemical Shifts in Actinide Complexes,Beyond Bleaney's Theory: The AnVIO22+–Dipicolinic Acid Complexes (An=Np,Pu) as an Example

Actinide +VI complexes ( = , and ) with dipicolinic acid derivatives were synthesized and characterized by powder XRD, SQUID magnetometry and NMR spectroscopy. In addition, and complexes were described by first principles CAS based and two-component spin-restricted DFT methods. The analysis of the ¹H paramagnetic NMR chemical shifts for all protons of the ligands according to the X-rays structures shows that the Fermi contact contribution is negligible in agreement with spin density determined by unrestricted DFT. The magnetic susceptibility tensor is determined by combining SQUID, pNMR shifts and Evans’ method. The SO-RASPT2 results fit well the experimental magnetic susceptibility and pNMR chemical shifts. The role of the counterions in the solid phase is pointed out; their presence impacts the magnetic properties of the complex. The temperature dependence of the pNMR chemical shifts has a strong contribution, contrarily to Bleaney's theory for lanthanide complexes. The fitting of the temperature dependence of the pNMR chemical shifts and SQUID magnetic susceptibility by a two-Kramers-doublet model for the complex and a non-Kramers-doublet model for the complex allows for the experimental evaluation of energy gaps and magnetic moments of the paramagnetic center.     

Analysis of the Magnetic Coupling in a Mn(II)-U(V)-Mn(II) Single Molecule Magnet

[{Mn(TPA)I}{UO2(Mesaldien)}{Mn(TPA)I}]I formula (here TPA=tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine and Mesaldien=N,N’-(2-aminomethyl)diethylenebis(salicylidene imine)) reported by Mazzanti and coworkers (Chatelain et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014 , 53, 13434) is so far the best Single Molecule Magnet (SMM) in the {3d–5f} class of molecules exhibiting barrier height of magnetization reversal as high as 81.0 K. In this work, we have employed a combination of ab initio CAS and DFT methods to fully characterize this compound and to extract the relevant spin Hamiltonian parameters. We show that the signs of the magnetic coupling and of the g-factors of the monomers are interconnected. The central magnetic unit [U^VO₂]⁺ is described by a Kramers Doublet (KD) with negative g-factors, due to a large orbital contribution. The magnetic coupling for the {Mn(II)-U(V)} pair is modeled by an anisotropic exchange Hamiltonian: all components are ferromagnetic in terms of spin moments, the parallel component J_Z twice larger as the perpendicular one J_⊥. The spin density distribution suggests that spin polarization on the U(V) center favors the ferromagnetic coupling. Further, the J_Z/J_⊥ ratio, which is related to the barrier height, was found to correlate to the corresponding spin contribution of the g-factors of the U(V) center. This correlation established for the first time offers a direct way to estimate this important ratio from the corresponding g^S-values, which can be obtained using traditional ab initio packages and hence has a wider application to other {3d–5f} magnets. It is finally shown that the magnetization barrier height is tuned by the splitting of the [U^VO₂]⁺ 5 f orbitals.     

人工神经网络用于锕系离子An3+水解常数pK1预测研究

０引言水解常数是金属离子水溶液化学的基础数据，对于研究水溶液中离子的状态以及进一步研究其在水溶液中的其它化学行为是必不可少的。一般金属离子（包括镧系金属离子）的水解常数数据相对较为完善，对它们水解的规律性也有不少研究，但锕系金属离子的水解常数数据迄今较缺乏，特别是重锕系的水解常数数据基本空缺犤１～５犦。这主要是因为锕系多为放射性元素，重锕系则基本是人工元素，被发现或合成较晚，即使通过核反应合成，量也往往极少（常以多少个原子个数计算），且半衰期大多很短，因而从获取样品到进行有关化学研究都相当困难。…     

Synthesis and characterization of an amethyrin-uranyl complex displaying aromatic character

Abstract

The reaction between amethyrin and non-aqueous uranyl silylamide (UO₂[N(SiMe₃)₂]₂) under anaerobic conditions affords a bench-stable uranyl complex. UV–vis spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, as well as proton NMR spectroscopic analyses provide support for the conclusion that all six pyrrole subunits participate in coordination of the uranyl dication and that, upon complexation, the amethyrin-core undergoes a 2-electron oxidation to yield a formal 22 π-electron aromatic species.     

Design criteria for tetradentate phenanthroline-derived heterocyclic ligands to separate Am(Ⅲ) from Eu(Ⅲ)

To design novel phenanthroline-derived soft ligands for selectively separating minor actinides from lanthanides, four tetradentate phenanthroline-derived heterocyclic ligands(BTPhen, BPyPhen, BPzPhen, and BBizPhen) were constructed and their complexation behaviors with Am(ⅡI) and Eu(ⅡI) were systematically investigated by density functional theory(DFT) coupled with relativistic small-core pseudopotential. In all the 1:1-type species, the metal ion is in the center of the cavity and coordinates with two nitrogen atoms(N1 and N1′) of the phenanthroline skeleton and the other two nitrogen atoms(N2 and N2′) of the auxiliary groups. The bond lengths of Am–N are comparable to or even shorter than those of Eu–N bonds because the ionic radii of Am(ⅡI) are larger than those of Eu(ⅡI). Additionally, the negative ΔΔGAm/Eu value for the reaction of [M(H2O)4-(NO3)3] + L → ML(NO3)3 + 4H2 O indicates that the complexation reaction of Am(ⅡI) is more energetically favorable than that of Eu(ⅡI); this can be considered as an important design criterion to screen phenanthroline-derived ligands for MA(ⅡI) extraction. According to this criterion, the selectivity of tetradentate phenanthroline-derived ligands for separating Am(ⅡI) over Eu(ⅡI) follows the order of BTPhen BBizPhen BPyPhen BPzPhen.     

稀土和锕系配合物促进的氮气活化与转化研究

氮气分子具有高的化学惰性,氮气的活化与转化充满挑战.含氮有机物在国民经济发展中具有广泛且重要的价值,实现温和条件下由氮气直接转化为含氮有机物在科学和经济上均具有重要意义.目前对氮气的活化与转化的研究主要集中在主族与过渡金属配合物,稀土和锕系元素由于具有特殊的电子结构,在氮气的活化与转化领域展现出了区别于主族和过渡金属的特殊反应活性.我国作为稀土和钍资源大国,开展稀土及锕系元素的固氮转化研究具有重要的战略意义.本综述归纳和总结了过去五年内稀土和锕系金属氮气配合物的合成,以及由稀土和锕系配合物促进的以氮气为原料生成含氮有机物的研究.     

Calculation of cohesive energy of actinide metals

According to empirical electron theory of solids and molecules (EET), an equation for calculating the cohesive energy of actinide metals is given, the cohesive energy of 9 actinide metals with known crystal structure is calculated, which is identical with the experimental values on the whole, and the cohesive energy of 6 actinide metals with unknown crystal structure is forecast.     

High pressure X-ray diffraction experiments on NpS and PUS up to 60 GPa

Abstract

Neptunium and plutonium monosulfides were studied under high pressure up to ～60 GPa using a diamond anvil cell in an energy dispersive X-ray diffraction facility. The compounds, of cubic rock salt structure type at ambient pressure, do not show any crystallographic phase transition in the domain of investigation. From the pressure-volume relationship, we determined bulk moduli of 92 and 120 GPa with pressure derivatives of 4.6 and 4.1 for NpS and PUS respectively.