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Proc. of 5th Int. Symposium on ASR-WYP-2005 – Advances in the Physics and Chemistry of Actinide Compounds –

Preparation of Uranium(III) Triflate in Tetrahydrofuran by Reduction of U(OTf)₄ with Zinc amalgam

Tomoo Yamamura, Kenji Shirasaki and Yoshinobu Shiokawa

In order to develop an alternative preparation method of uranium(III) precursors soluble in aprotic organic solvent used for the preparation of uranium(III) compounds, U(IV) triflate, U(OTf)₄, in tetrahydrofuran (THF) was reduced to produce uranium(III) triflate. U(OTf)₄ in THF was completely reduced by large excess of zinc within 25 minutes. Energies and molar coefficients of the absorption bands of U(III) triflate are close to those of U(III) in 1M HCl aqueous solution especially in the range of (9 -14) ×10³ cm^-1. U(III) triflate solution maintains its oxidation state in THF is when it is contacted with zinc amalgam for more than a week.

URL: http://jpsj.ipap.jp/link?JPSJS/75S/149/
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJS.75S.149

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