U−Oyl stretching vibrations as a quantitative measure of the equatorial bond covalency in uranyl complexes : a quantum-chemical investigation

Di Pietro, Poppy and Kerridge, Andrew (2016) U−Oyl stretching vibrations as a quantitative measure of the equatorial bond covalency in uranyl complexes : a quantum-chemical investigation. Inorganic Chemistry, 55 (2). pp. 573-583. ISSN 0020-1669

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Abstract

The molecular structures of a series of uranyl (UO22+) complexes in which the uranium center is equatorially coordinated by a first-row species are calculated at the density functional theory level and binding energies deduced. The resulting electronic structures are investigated using a variety of density-based analysis techniques in order to quantify the degree of covalency in the equatorial bonds. It is shown that a consideration of the properties of both the one-electron and electron-pair densities is required to understand and rationalize the variation in axial bonding effected by equatorial complexation. Strong correlations are found between density-based measures of the covalency and equatorial binding energies, implying a stabilizing effect due to covalent interaction, and it is proposed that uranyl U–Oyl stretching vibrational frequencies can serve as an experimental probe of equatorial covalency.

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Journal Article
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Inorganic Chemistry
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This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Inorganic Chemistry, copyright ©2015 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01219
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19 Feb 2016 16:34
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