Directed Synthesis of Crystalline Plutonium(III) and (IV) Oxalates: Accessing Redox-Controlled Separations in Acidic Solutions

摘要

Single crystals of hydrated oxalates of Pu(III), Pu-2(C2O4)(3)(H2O)6 center dot 3H(2)O and Pu(IV), KPu(C2O4)(2)-(OH)center dot 2.5H(2)O, were synthesized under moderate hydrothermal conditions and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction studies. These compounds are the first plutonium (III) or (IV) oxalate compounds to be structurally characterized via single crystal X-ray diffraction studies.