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Richard E Wilson1, Philip M Almond, Peter C Burns
1Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA. rewilson@anl.gov
Abstract:
The preparation and structure of three trivalent plutonium chloride compounds from aqueous solution is reported. Two of the three are plutonium tetraaquatetrachloro complexes exhibiting a cis and a trans arrangement of Cl about the Pu. The identification of the coordination number of 4 with respect to Cl and the isomerism are both unprecedented in actinide solution chemistry. The third complex is a hexaaquadichloro complex of Pu(III), predicted by available thermodynamic data.
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