Probing the 5f electrons in a plutonyl(VI) cluster complex

Roy Copping; Catherine Talbot-Eeckelaers; David Collison; Madeleine Helliwell; Andrew J Gaunt; Iain May; Sean D Reilly; Brian L Scott; Ross D McDonald; Oscar A Valenzula; Chris J Jones; Mark J Sarsfield

doi:10.1039/b908648j

Probing the 5f electrons in a plutonyl(VI) cluster complex

Dalton Trans. 2009 Aug 7:(29):5609-11. doi: 10.1039/b908648j. Epub 2009 Jun 10.

Authors

Roy Copping¹, Catherine Talbot-Eeckelaers, David Collison, Madeleine Helliwell, Andrew J Gaunt, Iain May, Sean D Reilly, Brian L Scott, Ross D McDonald, Oscar A Valenzula, Chris J Jones, Mark J Sarsfield

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Radiochemistry Research, School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK M13 9PL.

PMID: 20449073
DOI: 10.1039/b908648j

Abstract

We report the structural, spectroscopic and preliminary magnetic characterisation of a tri-metallic plutonyl(VI) polyoxometalate complex, K(11)[K(3)(PuO(2))(3)(GeW(9)O(34))(2)] x 12 H(2)O.