Insight into the Structural Ambiguity of Actinide(IV) Oxalate Sheet Structures: A Case for Alternate Coordination Geometries

A Kirstin Sockwell; Teagan F M Sweet; Brodie Barth; Sara B Isbill; Nicole A DiBlasi; Jennifer E S Szymanowski; Ginger E Sigmon; Allen G Oliver; Andrew J Miskowiec; Peter C Burns; Amy E Hixon

doi:10.1002/chem.202302206

Insight into the Structural Ambiguity of Actinide(IV) Oxalate Sheet Structures: A Case for Alternate Coordination Geometries

Chemistry. 2023 Aug 21;29(47):e202302206. doi: 10.1002/chem.202302206. Epub 2023 Jul 28.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA.
² Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA.
³ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
⁴ Current address: Actinide Analytical Chemistry, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA.

PMID: 37605346
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202302206

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue is the group of Amy Hixon at the University of Notre Dame. The image depicts the newly identified structure of a Pu^IV oxalate sheet compared to the historically assumed structure. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202301164.