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Quantum Chemical Studies of Actinides and Lanthanides: From Small Molecules to Nanoclusters A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Bess Vlaisavljevich IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF Doctor of Philosophy Professor Laura Gagliardi June, 2013 (cid:13)c Bess Vlaisavljevich 2013 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Acknowledgements There are many people that I would like to thank for all of their support through my graduateschoolyears. Firstofall,I’dliketothankmyadvisorProf. LauraGagliardifor her encouragement, advice, and providing me with countless opportunities to develop asascientist. Additionally, I’dliketothankProf. DavidBlankandProf. ChrisCramer for taking the time to be great mentors in teaching. I would also like to thank Prof. Chris Cramer for all of the helpful discussions in research as well. I’d also like to thank the Chemistry faculty at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities for all they have taught me. I’d also like to thank Profs. Joe Alia, Nancy Carpenter, Jenn Goodnough, Ted Pappenfus, and Jim Togeas at the University of Minnesota – Morris for starting me off on the right foot in my chemistry career. I would like thank all of the collaborators from outside the University of Minnesota for the very useful discussions especially Prof. Thomas Albrecht-Schmidt, Prof. Lester Andrews,Prof. CarlesBo,Prof. PeterBurns,Prof. ScottDaly,Prof. PaulaDiaconescu, Prof. Greg Girolami, Dr. Ivan Infante, Dr. Jason Keith, Prof. Stephen Liddle, Prof. May Nyman, Dr. Jie Qiu, Dr. Ginger Sigmon, Dr. Riccardo Spezia, and Dr. Tanya Todorova. I’d especially like to thank Dr. Enrique Batista and Dr. Richard Martin for provided a great learning environment during my short visit learning and working with them at LANL. Next, I’d like to thank Pere Mir´o for all of the love and support over the last few years not only as my partner in crime but also as a colleague. The many hours we have spent discussing chemistry always reminds me how much I enjoy research even through the difficulties. It’s too bad you don’t want a cat. A big thanks to the Gagliardi group members (past and present) for all of the scientific help, for the great friends you have become, and of course good lunchtime i conversation. Thank you Abbas, Allison, Alison, Abdul, Becky, Chad, David, Daniel, Danylo, Dongxia, Drew, Dylan, Ivan, Eileen, Giovanni, Huilang, Josh, Laura F., Laura L.,Mike,R´emi,Sarah,andToni. IespeciallyliketothankAllisonDzubak,NoraPlanas, and Dongxia Ma for keeping me company during many trips for coffee and always being willing listen. I’d like to offer a special thanks to Dr. Ivan Infante and Dr. Abdul Rehaman Moughal Shahi for taking the time during my first few years to answer my many many questions. I’d also like to thank the current and former Cramer group members especially Aaron, Ashley, Samat, Stuart, Josh, and Will. I’d also like to thank the other graduate students in my year in particular Deanna, Jacqui, Emily, Darren, Brian, Kelly, and Katie. FinallyI’dliketothankallofmywonderfulfamilyandfriends. Mytimeingraduate schoolwouldhavebeenmuchlessfunifIcouldn’tshareitwithallofyou. Andofcourse I am forever in debt to parents, my siblings, and the “other V’s” (Dan, Molly, Ryan, Anna, Lala, and Gerry). You guys are the best! ii Dedication For Pere Mir´o my father Steve Vlaisavljevich my mother Colleen Vlaisavljevich my siblings Eli and Rose Vlaisavljevich In memory of my mother Theresa Vlaisavljevich iii Abstract Research into actinides is of high interest because of their potential applications as an energy source and for the environmental implications therein. Global concern has arisen since the development of the actinide concept in the 1940s led to the industrial scaleuseofthecommercialnuclearenergycycleandnuclearweaponsproduction. Large quantities of waste have been generated from these processes inspiring efforts to address fundamentalquestionsinactinidescience. Inthisregard, theobjectiveofthisworkisto use theory to provide insight and predictions into actinide chemistry, where experimen- tal work is extremely challenging because of the intrinsic difficulties of the experiments themselves and the safety issues associated with this type of chemistry. This thesis is a collection of theoretical studies of actinide chemistry falling into three categories: quantum chemical and matrix isolation studies of small molecules, the electronic struc- ture of organoactinide systems, and uranyl peroxide nanoclusters and other solid state actinide compounds. The work herein not only spans a wide range of systems size but also investigates a range of chemical problems. Various quantum chemical approaches have been employed. Wave function-based methods have been used to study the elec- tronic structure of actinide containing molecules of small to middle-size. Among these methods, the complete active space self consistent field (CASSCF) approach with cor- rections from second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2), the generalized active space SCF (GASSCF) approach, and Møller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory (MP2) have been employed. Likewise, density functional theory (DFT) has been used along with analysis tools like bond energy decomposition, bond orders, and Bader’s Atoms in Molecules. From these quantum chemical results, comparison with experimentally obtained structures and spectra are made. iv Contents Acknowledgements i Dedication iii Abstract iv List of Tables viii List of Figures xi Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Organization of the Thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2 Quantum Chemical and Matrix Isolation Studies of Small Molecules 18 2.1 UandP ReactionProducts: AQuantumChemicalandMatrixIsolation 4 Spectroscopic Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.1.2 Experimental and Computational Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.1.3 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.1.4 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.1.5 Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.2 Combined Triple and Double Bonds to Uranium: The N≡U=NH Uran- imine Nitride Molecule Prepared in Solid Argon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 v 2.2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 2.2.2 Experimental and Computational Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 2.2.3 Results and Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 2.2.4 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 2.2.5 Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 3 Combined Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Oraganoactinide Compounds 49 3.1 OntheNatureofActinideandLanthanide–MetalBondsinHeterobimetal- lic Compounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 3.1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 3.1.2 Results and Discussions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 3.1.3 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 3.1.4 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 3.2 Volatilities of Actinide and Lanthanide N,N-Dimethyl-aminodiboranate Chemical Vapor Deposition Precursors: A DFT Study . . . . . . . . . . 74 3.2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 3.2.2 Computational and Experimental Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 3.2.3 Results and Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 3.2.4 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 3.2.5 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 3.3 Investigations of the Electronic Structure of Arene-Bridged Diuranium Complexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 3.3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 3.3.2 Results and Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 3.3.3 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 3.3.4 Experimental Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 3.3.5 Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 4 Uranyl Peroxides and Solid State Actinide Compounds 116 4.1 Understanding the Structure and Formation of Uranyl Peroxide Nan- oclusters by Quantum Chemical Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 4.1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 vi 4.1.2 Theoretical Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 4.1.3 Results and Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 4.1.4 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 4.1.5 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 4.2 Uranyl-Peroxide Nanocapsules in Aqueous Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 4.2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 4.2.2 Computational Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 4.2.3 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 4.2.4 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 4.2.5 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 4.3 Synthesis and Characterization of the First 2D Neptunyl Structure Sta- bilized by Side-on Cation-Cation Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 4.3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 4.3.2 Experimental Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 4.3.3 Computational Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 4.3.4 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Appendix A. Acronyms 194 vii List of Tables 2.1 Calculated Structural Parameters and Harmonic Frequencies for UP and UPa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 2.2 Comparison of Electronic States, Bond Orders, and Distances For Ura- nium Pnictides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 2.3 Computed Energies for U and P Reaction Products . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4 2.4 Observed and Calculated Frequencies for NUNH Isotopic Molecules in the 2∆ Ground Statea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3.1 Optimized bond distances in angstroms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 3.2 Bonding energy and charge transfer between the Ln/An and M fragments. 63 3.3 Comparison between calculated geometries for U–Re from the current study and previous work by Gardner et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 3.4 Energy decomposition performed using Equation 3.1. The percentage of the total attractive interaction of electrostatic and orbital interactions is given in parentheses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 3.5 Theoretical bond critical point properties for the bimetallic species stud- ied. All values are expressed in atomic units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 3.6 Selected Geometric Parameters Obtained from Ground State Geome- try Optimization; Average Distances Are Reported for the Two Central Metal Centers (Part a of Figure 3.10) in ˚A; Average Individual Mayer Bond Orders Are Given along with the Number of Such Bonds Per Metal Centera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 viii

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