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Steciuk G, Kiefer B, Hornfeck W, Kasatkin AV, Plášil J. Molybdenum Disorder in Hydrated Sedovite, Ideally U(MoO 4) 2· nH 2O, a Microporous Nanocrystalline Mineral Characterized by Three-Dimensional Electron Diffraction, Density Functional Theory Computations, and Complexity Analysis. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:15169-15179. [PMID: 34559506 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Sedovite, U4+(Mo6+O4)2·nH2O, is reported as being one of the earliest supergene minerals formed of the secondary zone. The difficulty of isolating enough pure material limits studies to techniques that can access the nanoscale combined with theoretical analyses. The crystal structure of sedovite has been solved and refined using the dynamical approach from three-dimensional electron diffraction data collected on natural nanocrystals found among iriginite. At 100 K, sedovite is monoclinic a ≈ 6.96 Å, b ≈ 9.07 Å, c ≈ 12.27 Å, and V ≈ 775 Å3 with space group C2/c. The microporous structure presents a characteristic framework built from uranium polyhedra and disordered Mo pyramids creating pore hosting water molecules. To confirm the formula U4+(Mo6+O4)2·nH2O, the possible presence of a hydroxyl group that would promote Mo5+ was tested with density functional theory (DFT) computations at the ambient temperature. DFT predicts that sedovite is a ferromagnetic insulator with a fundamental bandgap of Eg ∼ 1.7 eV with its chemical and physical properties dominated by U4+ rather than Mo6+. The structural complexity, IG,tot, of sedovite was evaluated in order to get indirect information about the missing formation conditions.
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- Gwladys Steciuk
- Department of Structure Analysis, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, Prague 8 182 21, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, United States
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- Department of Structure Analysis, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, Prague 8 182 21, Czech Republic
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- Fersman Mineralogical Museum of Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospekt 18-2, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Structure Analysis, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, Prague 8 182 21, Czech Republic
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Steciuk G, Majzlan J, Plášil J. Hydrogen disorder in kaatialaite Fe[AsO 2(OH) 2]5H 2O from Jáchymov, Czech Republic: determination from low-temperature 3D electron diffraction. IUCRJ 2021; 8:116-123. [PMID: 33520247 PMCID: PMC7793002 DOI: 10.1107/s2052252520015626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Kaatialaite mineral Fe[AsO2(OH)2]5H2O from Jáchymov, Czech Republic forms white aggregates of needle-shaped crystals with micrometric size. Its structure at ambient temperature has already been reported but hydrogen atoms could not be identified from single-crystal X-ray diffraction. An analysis using 3D electron diffraction at low temperature brings to light the hydrogen positions and the existence of hydrogen disorder. At 100 K, kaatialaite is described in a monoclinic unit cell of a = 15.46, b = 19.996, c = 4.808 Å, β = 91.64° and V = 1485.64 Å3 with space group P21/n. The hydrogen sites were revealed after refinements both considering the dynamical effects and ignoring them. The possibility to access most of the hydrogen positions, including partially occupied ones among heavy atoms, from the kinematical refinement is due to the recent developments in the analysis of 3D electron data. The hydrogen bonding observed in kaatialaite provides examples of H2O configurations that have not been observed before in the structures of oxysalts with the presence of unusual inverse transformer H2O groups.
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- Gwladys Steciuk
- Department of Structure Analysis, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, Prague 8, 182 21, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich-Schiller University, Burgweg 11, Jena, 07749, Germany
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- Department of Structure Analysis, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, Prague 8, 182 21, Czech Republic
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Kozlova TO, Mironov AV, Istomin SY, Birichevskaya KV, Gippius AA, Zhurenko SV, Shatalova TB, Baranchikov AE, Ivanov VK. Meet the Cerium(IV) Phosphate Sisters: Ce IV (OH)PO 4 and Ce IV 2 O(PO 4 ) 2. Chemistry 2020; 26:12188-12193. [PMID: 32608019 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202002527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2020] [Revised: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Two new cerium(IV) phosphates were obtained: cerium(IV) hydroxidophosphate, Ce(OH)PO4 , and cerium(IV) oxidophosphate, Ce2 O(PO4 )2 , which were shown to complement the classes of isostructural compounds M(OH)PO4 and R2 O(PO4 )2 , where M=Th, U and R=Th, U, Np, Zr. Ce2 O(PO4 )2 oxidophosphate is formed by elimination of H2 O from the crystal structure of Ce(OH)PO4 during its thermal decomposition. The structures of Ce(OH)PO4 and Ce2 O(PO4 )2 are related to each other with the same Cmce space group and similar unit cell parameters (a=6.9691(3) Å, b=9.0655(4) Å, c=12.2214(4) Å, V=772.13(8) Å3 , Z=8; a=7.0220(4) Å, b=8.9894(5) Å, c=12.544(1) Å, V=791.8(1) Å3 , Z=4, respectively).
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- Taisiya O Kozlova
- Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 31, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow, 119991, Russia.,National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20 Myasnitskaya str., Moscow, 101000, Russia
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- Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 31, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow, 119991, Russia.,Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 53, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow, 119991, Russia.,Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 53, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 31, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 31, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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Plášil J, Kiefer B, Ghazisaeed S, Philippo S. Hydrogen bonding in the crystal structure of phurcalite, Ca 2[(UO 2) 3O 2(PO 4) 2]·7H 2O: single-crystal X-ray study and TORQUE calculations. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B, STRUCTURAL SCIENCE, CRYSTAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS 2020; 76:502-509. [PMID: 32831267 PMCID: PMC7278090 DOI: 10.1107/s2052520620005739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2020] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The crystal structure of phurcalite, Ca2[(UO2)3O2(PO4)2]·7H2O, orthorhombic, a = 17.3785 (9) Å, b = 15.9864 (8) Å, c = 13.5477 (10) Å, V = 3763.8 (4) Å3, space group Pbca, Z = 8 has been refined from single-crystal XRD data to R = 0.042 for 3182 unique [I > 3σ(I)] reflections and the hydrogen-bonding scheme has been refined by theoretical calculations based on the TORQUE method. The phurcalite structure is layered, with uranyl phosphate sheets of the phosphuranylite topology which are linked by extensive hydrogen bonds across the interlayer occupied by Ca2+ cations and H2O groups. In contrast to previous studies the approach here reveals five transformer H2O groups (compared to three expected by a previous study) and two non-transformer H2O groups. One of the transformer H2O groups is, nevertheless, not linked to any metal cation, which is a less frequent type of H2O bonding in solid state compounds and minerals. The structural formula of phurcalite has been therefore redefined as {Ca2(H2[3]O)5(H2[4]O)2}[(UO2)3O2(PO4)2], Z = 8.
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- Jakub Plášil
- Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i., Na Slovance 2, Praha 8, 18221, Czech Republic
- Correspondence e-mail:
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- Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico NM 88003, USA
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- Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico NM 88003, USA
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- Section Minéralogie, Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Rue Münster 25, Luxembourg, 2160, Luxembourg
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