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Inorg Chem. 2020 Nov 02;59(21):15583-15586. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02718. Epub 2020 Oct 21.

Interaction with Simple Monopyridinecarboxylic Ligands Revealing Unexpected Structural Types of Uranyl Halides.

Inorganic chemistry

Grigory Andreev, Nina Budantseva, Aleksander Fedoseev

Affiliations

  1. Laboratory for Chemistry of Transuranium Elements, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Moscow 119071, Russia.

PMID: 33085466 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02718

Abstract

The inclusion of monopyridinecarboxylic acids into the structures of uranyl halides results in the formation of unexpected structural units. Molecules of picolinic and nicotinic acids acting as bridging ligands favor the formation of unprecedented dinuclear units in two uranyl bromide complexes, which comprise two metal centers in different, tetragonal- and pentagonal-bipyramidal, coordination geometries. Moreover, the different positions of the nitrogen atom in the molecule of nicotinic acid induce significant bending of the heterodimer. The uranyl chloride complex with isonicotinic acid also exhibits a structure containing metal atoms in two unique geometries. The structure consists of cationic and anionic isolated fragments. The anionic part is unprecedented and represents the first example of a 1:3 uranyl halide unit with a tetragonal bipyramid surrounding the central atom.

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