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Inside Cover: Neptunium Diverges Sharply from Uranium and Plutonium in Crystalline Borate Matrixes: Insights into the Complex Behavior of the Early Actinides Relevant to Nuclear Waste Storage (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 7/2010)
Author(s) -
Wang Shuao,
Alekseev Evgeny V.,
Ling Jie,
Skanthakumar S.,
Soderholm L.,
Depmeier Wulf,
AlbrechtSchmitt Thomas E.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201000114
Subject(s) - neptunium , plutonium , actinide , uranium , boron , transuranium element , radiochemistry , chemistry , americium , nuclear chemistry , materials science , metallurgy , organic chemistry
A large family of crystalline uranium, neptunium, and plutonium borates has been prepared to explore how the chemical behavior of these neighboring elements might differ. In their Communication on page 1263 ff., T. E. Albrecht‐Schmitt et al. describe highly unusual behavior for neptunium, which forms several layered neptunyl borates with nanoscale features that simultaneously contain Np IV , NP V , and Np VI . The properties of these neptunium compounds contrast sharply with those of uranium and plutonium, which are both present solely as U VI or Pu VI .