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<p>The interest in understanding
the <i>f</i>-block elements has been increasing because of the large applications
of these elements across all fields of science and technology. The lanthanides are
used in various technologies like car batteries and phone screens. The actinides are the basis of current nuclear
fuel processes. The <i>f</i> -block has many interesting properties and has
been proven to be fruitful in inorganic chemistry. Neodymium is redox inactive
and was studied with a redox active ligand pyridine diimine to see if
multielectron chemistry was viable. The neodymium chemistry is still in the
preliminary stages of research, but there is possibility of fruitful
reactivity. Recently neptunium chemistry was introduced to the Bart lab to
study its rich redox chemistry. Neptunium’s
fundamental properties have been investigated for the last 80 years with new
bonding properties and behavior still being discovered today. Studies of
neptunium began with investigating the trivalent oxidation state. Synthesis of
new low valent trans-uranic starting materials is important because the fundamental
chemistry of these trivalent compounds is not well studied. By creating
Neptunium materials that are analogous to known uranium and lanthanide starting
materials, <i>f</i>-block chemists will be able to apply their previously
studied syntheses to a new element. </p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/15070842 |
| Date | 29 July 2021 |
| Creators | Megan A Whitefoot (11198847) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Exploratory_Synthesis_and_Redox_Behavior_of_the_f-block/15070842 |
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