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Back Cover: Base‐Driven Assembly of Large Uranium Oxo/Hydroxo Clusters (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 25/2011)
Author(s) -
Biswas Biplab,
Mougel Victor,
Pécaut Jacques,
Mazzanti Marinella
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201103371
Subject(s) - uranium , cover (algebra) , cluster (spacecraft) , benzoic acid , solvent , chemistry , base (topology) , nanoparticle , materials science , crystallography , nanotechnology , computer science , organic chemistry , engineering , metallurgy , mathematics , operating system , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis
Low‐valent uranium clusters provide good models to understand the formation and behavior of UO 2 nanoparticles. In their Communication on page 5745 ff., M. Mazzanti et al. present a reproducible method for the synthesis of such clusters. Benzoic acid is used to promote the formation of large oxo–hydroxo clusters, and cluster size can be tuned by the choice of solvent and base, thus leading to a U16 compound that is the largest U IV cluster reported to date.