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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 49, Issue 14, Pages 6690-6696Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ic100728s
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The reaction of uranyl nitrate with a large excess of molten boric acid in the presence of potassium or rubidium nitrate results in the formation of three new potassium uranyl borates, K-2[(UO2)(2)B12O19(OH)(4)] center dot 0.3H(2)O (KUBO-1), K[(UO2)(2)-B10O15(OH)] (KUBO-2), and K[(UO2)(2)B10O18(OH)(3)] center dot 0.7H(2)O (KUBO-3) and two new rubidium uranyl borates Rb-2[(UO2)(2)B13O20(OH)(5)] (RbUBO-1) and Rb[(UO2)(2)B10O16(OH)(3)] center dot 0.7H(2)O (RbUBO-2). The latter is isotypic with KUBO-3. These compounds share a common structural motif consisting of a linear uranyl, UO22+, cation surrounded by BO3 triangles and BO4 tetrahedra to create an UO8 hexagonal bipyramidal environment around uranium. The borate anions bridge between uranyl units to create sheets. Additional BO3 triangles extend from the polyborate layers and are directed approximately perpendicular to the sheets. All of these compounds adopt layered structures. With the exception of KUBO-1, the structures are all centrosymmetric. All of these compounds fluoresce when irradiated with long-wavelength UV light. The fluorescence spectrum yields well-defined vibronically coupled charge-transfer features.
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