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  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Nuclear Chemistry

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  • The DOTA ligand is crucial for complexing actinide ions.
  • Understanding actinide complex stability is vital for nuclear fuel cycles and waste management.
  • Relativistic effects are significant for heavy elements like actinides.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the structures and relative stabilities of DOTA-actinide complexes.
  • To compare gas phase and aqueous solution behavior.
  • To analyze the nature of actinide-ligand bonding.

Main Methods:

  • Relativistic actinide pseudopotentials.
  • Density Functional Theory (BP86).
  • Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) and coupled cluster (CC2) methods.
  • Configuration-averaged Hartree-Fock (CAHF) and Configuration Interaction (CASSCI) calculations.

Main Results:

  • Complex stability increases along the actinide series (Th to Pu).
  • Squared antiprismatic conformation is energetically favored over twisted forms.
  • Significant covalent contributions observed in actinide-oxygen and actinide-nitrogen bonds.
  • Comparison of 5f-in-core vs. 5f-in-valence pseudopotentials and analysis of electronic state averaging effects.

Conclusions:

  • The study provides detailed insights into the electronic structure and bonding of DOTA-actinide complexes.
  • Computational methods accurately predict trends in stability and structure.
  • Findings contribute to the fundamental understanding of actinide coordination chemistry.