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Stabilizing Unusual Oxidation States of Lanthanides in Molecular Complexes: Synthesis, Properties, and Reactivity

Aurélien René Willauer

The chemistry of divalent lanthanides has generated increasing interest in the past years due to their redox properties and unique reaction pathways. Notably, molecular complexes of low-valent lanthanides have been shown to be suitable one-electron reducta ...

EPFL2022

Synthesis, reactivity, and environmental relevance of uranyl(V) complexes

Radmila Faizova

Knowledge of fundamental chemical properties of all environmentally relevant uranium species is essential to understand environmental uranium mobility and develop novel remediation strate-gies. A myriad of uranium(VI) and uranium(IV) compounds has been stu ...

EPFL2020

Theoretical Investigation of the Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties of Oxo-Bridged Uranyl(V) Dinuclear and Trinuclear Complexes

Marinella Mazzanti

The uranyl(V) complexes UO2(dbm)(2)K(18C6) (dbm = dibenzoylmethanate) and UO2(L)(L = 2-(4-tolyl)-1,3-bis(quinolyl)malondiiminate), exhibiting diamond-shaped U2O2 and triangular-shaped U3O3 cores respectively with 5f(1)-5f(1 )and 5f(1)-5f(1)-5f(1) ...

2019

The effect of iron binding on uranyl(V) stability

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Radmila Faizova

Here we report the effect of UO2+⋯Fe2+ cation–cation interactions on the redox properties of uranyl(V) complexes and on their stability with respect to proton induced disproportionation. The tripodal heptadentate Schiff base trensal3− ligand allowed the sy ...

2018

Lanthanide mechanoluminescence

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Mechanoluminescence (ML) is the emission of light consecutive to a mechanical force or stress imposed to a crystalline material. Many inorganic and organic compounds present this phenomenon that is known for over 400 years. Lanthanide and uranyl salts were ...

Elsevier Science Bv2018

Partitioning of uranyl between ferrihydrite and humic substances at acidic and circum-neutral pH

Gabrielle Dublet

As part of a larger study of the reactivity and mobility of uranyl (U(VI) O-2(2+)) cations in subsurface environments containing natural organic matter (NOM) and hydrous ferric oxides, we have examined the effect of reference humic and fulvic substances on ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Nitrogen reduction and functionalization by a multimetallic uranium nitride complex

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Ivica Zivkovic, Lucile Sylvie Danielle Chatelain, Marta Falcone

Molecular nitrogen (N-2) is cheap and widely available, but its unreactive nature is a challenge when attempting to functionalize it under mild conditions with other widely available substrates (such as carbon monoxide, CO) to produce value-added compounds ...

2017

Isolation of a Star-Shaped Uranium(V/VI) Cluster from the Anaerobic Photochemical Reduction of Uranyl(VI)

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Lucile Sylvie Danielle Chatelain

Actinide oxo clusters are an important class of compounds due to their impact on actinide migration in the environment. The photolytic reduction of uranyl(VI) has potential application in catalysis and spent nuclear fuel reprocessing, but the intermediate ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2016

Water-Mediated Ion Pairing: Occurrence and Relevance

Sylvie Roke

We present an overview of the studies of ion pairing in aqueous media of the past decade. In these studies, interactions between ions, and between ions and water, are investigated with relatively novel approaches, including dielectric relaxation spectrosco ...

American Chemical Society2016

Investigation of the water exchange mechanism of the Plutonyl(VI) and Uranyl(VI) ions with quantum chemical methods

François Rotzinger, Antonio Prlj

The water exchange reactions of PuO2(OH2)(5) and UO2(OH2)(5) were investigated with density functional theory (DFT) and wave function theory (WFT). Geometries and vibrational frequencies were calculated with DFT and CPCM hydration. The electron ...

Taylor & Francis2015

Uranyl complexes formed with a para-t-butylcalix[4]arene bearing phosphinoyl pendant arms on the lower rim. Solid and solution studies

Jean-Claude Bünzli

The current interest in functionalized calixarenes with phosphorylated pendant arms resides in their coordination ability towards f elements and capability towards actinide/rare earth separation. Uranyl cation forms 1: 1 and 1: 2 (M : L) complexes with a t ...

2012

Redetermination of di-$\mu$-hydroxido- bis[diaquachloridodioxidouranium(VI)] from single-crystal synchrotron data

Philip Pattison

The title compound,

(UO_2)_2Cl_2(OH)_2(H_2O)_4

, was obtained unintentionally as the product of an attempted reaction between uranium(VI) oxide dihydrate,

UO_3·2H_2O

, and hydrogen bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide

(HTf_2N)

, in an experiment to obtain ...

2010

Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Ln(III)-DOTA-Bipy Complexes and Ln(III)-DOTA-Bipy-Ru-II Coordination Conjugates

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Svetlana Eliseeva

The synthesis and the systematic and comparative photo-physical study of a series of visible (Eu-III, Tb-III) and NIR-emitting (Nd-III, Yb-III) lanthanide complexes (Ln(2)L) and ruthenium lanthanide coordination conjugates (Ln(2)LRu) are reported. The Gd-I ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

2,2’-Bipyrimidine as Efficient Sensitizer of the Solid-State Luminescence of Lanthanide and Uranyl Ions from Visible to Near-Infrared

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

Treatment of Ln(NO3)3.nH2O with 1 or 2 equiv 2,2-bipyrimidine (BPM) in dry THF readily afforded the monometallic complexes [Ln(NO3)3(bpm)2] (Ln=Eu, Gd, Dy, Tm) or [Ln(NO3)3(bpm)2]THF (Ln=Eu, Tb, Er, Yb) after recrystallization from MeOH or THF, respectivel ...

2009

Physicochemical Properties and Theoretical Modeling of Actinide Complexes with a para-tert-Butylcalix[6]arene Bearing Phosphinoyl Pendants. Extraction Capability of the Calixarene toward f Elements

Jean-Claude Bünzli

The coordination ability of the hexaphosphinoylated p-tert-butylcalix[6]arene

B_6bL^6

toward actinides is established, as well as its good separation ability of the actinide ions

UO_2 ^{2+}

and Th(IV) over trivalent rare earths such as La(III), Eu(III) ...

2008

Visible-Light Excitation of Infrared Lanthanide Luminescence via Intra-Ligand Charge-Transfer State in 1,3-Diketonates Containing Push-Pull Chromophores

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

A new 1,3-diketonato ligand containing both an electron-donor [4-(dimethylamino)benzene] and an electron-acceptor (4- nitrobenzene) group and its lanthanide complexes have been prepared. They display an intense intra-ligand charge-transfer absorption trans ...

2008

Near-Infrared Luminescence of Nine-Coordinate Neodymium Complexes with Benzimidazole-Substituted 8-Hydroxyquinolines

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

A new class of benzimidazole-substituted 8-hydroxyquinoline ligands has been prepared that contain a monoanionic tridentate N,N,O-coordinating unit. These ligands form charge-neutral lanthanide complexes of the type [Ln(LR) 3] · nH2O or [Ln2(L2)3] · nH2O ( ...

2008

Phosphodiester Cleavage in Ribonuclease H Occurs via an Associative Two-Metal-Aided Catalytic Mechanism

Matteo Dal Peraro

Ribonuclease H (RNase H) belongs to the nucleotidyl-transferase (NT) superfamily and hydrolyzes the phosphodiester linkages that form the backbone of the RNA strand in RNA x DNA hybrids. This enzyme is implicated in replication initiation and DNA topology ...

2008

Computer simulation of uranyl uptake by the rough lipopolysaccharide membrane of pseudomonas aeruginosa

Matteo Guglielmi

Heavy metal environmental contaminants cannot be destroyed but require containment, preferably in concentrated form, in a solid or immobile form for recycling or final disposal. Microorganisms are able to take up and deposit high levels of contaminant meta ...

American Chemical Society2008

Enantiopure helical (supra)molecular arrays containing lanthanides : design, synthesis and properties

Marco Antonio Lama

The diastereoselective synthesis of chiral coordination compounds with d metals proved the effectiveness of the pinene-bipyridine approach in predetermining the chirality at the metal centre. The strong Lewis acidic character of lanthanide cations required ...

EPFL2006