Picomolar Traces of Americium(III) Introduce Drastic Changes in the Structural Chemistry of Terbium(III): A Break in the “Gadolinium Break”

Autor(en)
Jan M. Welch, Danny Müller, Christian Knoll, Martin Wilkovitsch, Gerald Giester, Johannes Ofner, Bernhard Lendl, Peter Weinberger, Georg Steinhauser
Abstrakt

The crystn. of terbium 5,5'-azobis[1H-tetrazol-1-ide] (ZT) in the presence of trace amts. (ca. 50 Bq, ca. 1.6 pmol) of americium results in 1) the accumulation of the americium tracer in the cryst. solid and 2) a material that adopts a different crystal structure to that formed in the absence of americium. Americium-doped [Tb(Am)(H2O)7ZT]2 ZT[n.8901]10 H2O is isostructural to light lanthanide (Ce-Gd) 5,5'-azobis[1H-tetrazol-1-ide] compds., rather than to the heavy lanthanide (Tb-Lu) 5,5'-azobis[1H-tetrazol-1-ide] (e.g., [Tb(H2O)8]2ZT3[n.8901]6 H2O) derivs. Traces of Am seem to force the Tb compd. into a structure normally preferred by the lighter lanthanides, despite a 108-fold Tb excess. The americium-doped material was studied by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, vibrational spectroscopy, radiochem. neutron activation anal., and scanning electron microcopy. In addn., the inclusion properties of terbium 5,5'-azobis[1H-tetrazol-1-ide] towards americium were quantified, and a model for the crystn. process is proposed.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie
Externe Organisation(en)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Technische Universität Wien
Journal
Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)
Band
56
Seiten
13264–13269
Anzahl der Seiten
6
ISSN
1433-7851
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201703971
Publikationsdatum
10-2017
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
104011 Materialchemie, 105113 Kristallographie, 104020 Radiochemie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Allgemeine Chemie, Catalysis
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/750afff9-03b1-4366-8010-321afaf4fc71