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

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>19/01/2016
<mark>Journal</mark>Inorganic Chemistry
Issue number2
Volume55
Number of pages11
Pages (from-to)573-583
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date23/12/15
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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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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