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Koichiro Takao1, Yasuhisa Ikeda
1Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-N1-34, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan.
Abstract:
In the title compound, [U(C(4)F(9)O(3)S)O(2)(C(4)H(8)O)(3)], each U(VI) ion is located on a twofold rotation axis and is seven-coordinated by two terminal O atoms in the axial positions [U-O = 1.737 (5) Å] and five O atoms from two monodentate nona-fluoro-butane-sulfonate (NfO(-)) and three tetra-hydro-furan ligands in the equatorial plane [U-O = 2.388 (5)-2.411 (4) Å] in a penta-gonal-bipyramidal geometry. The crystal packing exhibits weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds involving the non-coordinated O atoms of the NfO(-) ligands.
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