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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 51, Issue 14, Pages 7801-7809Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ic3008574
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- Materials Science of Actinides Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001089]
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The compound Na-4[(UO2)(S-2)(3)](CH3OH)(8) was synthesized at room temperature in an oxygen-free environment. It contains a rare example of the [(UO2)(S-2)(3)](4-) complex in which a uranyl ion is coordinated by three bidentate persulfide groups. We examined the possible linkage of these units to form nanoscale cage clusters analogous to those formed from uranyl peroxide polyhedra. Quantum chemical calculations at the density functional and multiconfigurational wave function levels show that the uranyl-persulfide-uranyl, U-(S-2)-U, dihedral angles of model clusters are bent due to partial covalent interactions. We propose that this bent interaction will favor assembly of uranyl ions through persulfide bridges into curved structures, potentially similar to the family of nanoscale cage clusters built from uranyl peroxide polyhedra. However, the U-(S-2)-U dihedral angles predicted for several model structures may be too tight for them to self-assemble into cage clusters with fullerene topologies in the absence of other uranyl-ion bridges that adopt a flatter configuration. Assembly of species such as [(UO2)(S-2)(SH)(4)](4-) or [(UO2)(S-2)(C2O4)(4)](4-) into fullerene topologies with similar to 60 vertices may be favored by use of large counterions.
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