Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The paper systematizes and discusses the structures of uranyl tetrachloride complexes with inorganic and protonated organic cations, which were investigated by single-crystal X-ray structure analysis. The crystallochemical structural features of the analyzed compounds were determined. In the studied crystal structures of the UO2 2+ tetrachloride complexes, the coordination polyhedron of the hexavalent uranium atom has a tetragonal-bipyramidal (flattened octahedral) structure with the oxygen atoms of the uranyl group located at the apical vertices of the tetragonal-bipyramidal polyhedron. In the presence of free Cl− ions and/or free neutral molecules containing acceptor atoms in the structures of the uranyl tetrachloride complexes that are not bound to the U atom, the cations do not interact with the donor Cl atoms of the anion, but form hydrogen bonds with free chlorine ions and acceptor atoms of free molecules.
Source: Structural Chemistry
Authors: Ruven L. Davidovich, Evgeny A. Goreshnik
Language: English
Subfield: Inorganic Chemistry
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,990
OpenAlex ID: W4409639040