86. Cheng-Liang Xiao, Cong-Zhi Wang, Lei Mei, Nathalie Wall, Yu-Liang Zhao, Zhi-Fang Chai* and Wei-Qun Shi*. Europium, Uranyl, and Thorium- Phenanthroline Amide Complexes in Acetonitrile Solution: An ESI-MS and DFT Combined Investigation.
Dalton Trans.2015, accepted. (The first two authors contributed equally to this work.)
Synopsis
To understand the complexation of tetradentate N,N’-diethyl-N,N’- ditolyl-2,9-diamide-1,10-phenanthroline (Et-Tol-DAPhen, L) ligand with Eu(III), U(VI), and Th(IV), ESI-MS was used to probe the complexes formed in acetonitrile solution. The possible chemical structures, bonding characters, and thermodynamic parameters of M-L complexes (M = Eu(III), U(VI), and Th(IV)) were further explored by density functional theory (DFT).