Delineating the Effects of Counterions on the Structural and Vibrational Properties of U(IV) Lindqvist
Primadi J Subintoro1, Korey P Carter1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States.
Abstract:
Herein we conducted a full investigation into the fundamental structural and vibrational properties of uranium(IV) Peacock-Weakley-type lacunary Lindqvist (W10) polyoxometalate (POM) complexes. We recently demonstrated the importance of the secondary lattice elements in tuning the distortion of the D4d symmetry in W10 POM complexes, and here, we synthesized eight UW10 complexes with different alkali metal counterions and evaluated how the composition and packing of counterion species affected complex structural and vibrational properties. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis on complexes 1-8 revealed changes in structural distortion parameters as a function of differences in counterion configurations, while far-infrared and Raman spectra for 1-8 also demonstrated that vibrational mode frequencies were sensitive to changes in counterion composition and packing. To more effectively compare different counterion configurations, we developed counterion effective ionic radius (eIR) as a new structural parameter, and comparisons between structural distortion parameters and eIR values strongly suggested that modulation by the secondary lattice elements can affect structural and vibrational manifolds within POM complexes. Partial least squares (PLS) analysis was used to quantitatively evaluate correlations observed within this investigation, and PLS statistical models showed a strong correlation between counterion eIR and both structural distortion parameters and vibrational mode frequencies.
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