Issue 38, 2012

Chemical equilibria in the uranyl(vi)–peroxide–carbonate system; identification of precursors for the formation of poly-peroxometallates

Abstract

The focus of this study is on the identification of precursors in solution that might act as building blocks when solid uranyl(VI) poly-peroxometallate clusters containing peroxide and hydroxide bridges are formed. The precursors could be identified by using carbonate as an auxiliary ligand that prevented the formation of large clusters, such as the ones found in solids of fullerene type. Using data from potentiometric and NMR (17O and 13C) experiments we identified the following complexes and determined their equilibrium constants: (UO2)2(O2)(CO3)46−, UO2(O2)CO32−, UO2(O2)(CO3)24−, (UO2)2(O2)(CO3)22−, (UO2)2(O2)2(CO3)2− and [UO2(O2)(CO3)]510−. The NMR spectra of the pentamer show that all uranyl and carbonate sites are equivalent, which is only consistent with a ring structure built from uranyl units linked by peroxide bridges with the carbonate coordinated “outside” the ring; this proposed structure is very similar to [UO2(O2)(oxalate)]510− identified by Burns et al. (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 16648; Inorg. Chem., 2012, 51, 2403) in K10[UO2(O2)(oxalate)]5·(H2O)13; similar ring structures where oxalate or carbonate has been replaced by hydroxide are important structure elements in solid poly-peroxometallate complexes. The equivalent uranyl sites in (UO2)2(O2)2(CO3)2− suggest that the uranyl-units are linked by the carbonate ion and not by peroxide.

Graphical abstract: Chemical equilibria in the uranyl(vi)–peroxide–carbonate system; identification of precursors for the formation of poly-peroxometallates

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Jun 2012
Accepted
13 Jul 2012
First published
13 Jul 2012

Dalton Trans., 2012,41, 11635-11641

Chemical equilibria in the uranyl(VI)–peroxide–carbonate system; identification of precursors for the formation of poly-peroxometallates

P. L. Zanonato, P. Di Bernardo, Z. Szabó and I. Grenthe, Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 11635 DOI: 10.1039/C2DT31282D

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