Solution and Solid-State Structural Chemistry of Actinide Hydrates and Their Hydrolysis and Condensation Products

A study was conducted to demonstrate solution and solid-state structural chemistry of actinide hydrates and their hydrolysis and condensation products. The investigations focused on providing a detailed metrical description of a hydrated ion's coordination environment and how it changed as it further reacted with water through hydrolysis. The study emphasized on facilitating information transfer and comparisons between these two approaches to the same problem. It also focused on relating the metal-ligand correlated moieties and aggregates identified from thermodynamics with molecular level structures for which the theorist assessed the results. A number of An hydrates, mononuclear hydrolysis products, and polynuclear complexes were highlighted where polynuclear complexes resulted from metal-ion hydrolysis and condensation in aqueous and nonaqueous solution.