Boronic acid flux synthesis and crystal growth of uranium and neptunium boronates and borates: a low-temperature route to the first neptunium(V) borate

Inorg Chem. 2010 Nov 1;49(21):9755-7. doi: 10.1021/ic101678d.

Abstract

Molten methylboronic acid has been used as a reactive flux to prepare the first neptunium(V) borate, NpO(2)[B(3)O(4)(OH)(2)] (NpBO-1), and the first actinide boronate, UO(2)(CH(3)BO(2))(H(2)O) (UCBO-1). NpBO-1 contains cation-cation interactions between the neptunyl units. In contrast, the presence of the methyl groups in the uranyl boronate leads to a one-dimensional structure.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Borates / chemistry*
  • Boronic Acids / chemistry*
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Models, Molecular
  • Neptunium / chemistry*
  • Organometallic Compounds / chemical synthesis*
  • Organometallic Compounds / chemistry
  • Temperature*
  • Uranium / chemistry*

Substances

  • Borates
  • Boronic Acids
  • Organometallic Compounds
  • Uranium
  • Neptunium