Author(s):
Burrows, Hugh D.
Date: 1990
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/10300
Origin: Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra
Description
The decay of the excited uranyl ion in water in the presence of CI-, Br-, I-, and SCN- is studied by laser flash kinetic spectrophotometry.
The four anions all quench *U022b+y a bimolecular process suggested to involve electron or charge transfer.
Steady-state luminescence studies suggest that there is also some static contribution to the quenching. For Br-, I-, and SCN-,
radical anions, X2*-a,r e observed. However, kinetic studies indicate that these are not formed directly from *UO:+ but probably
come by bimolecular reaction of an intermediate uranium(V)/radical pair with the corresponding halide ion. The extinction
coefficient for the *UO?+ absorption is reported, and by use of this and transient absorbance data radical-anion yields are obtained
and found to depend linearly upon the halide anion concentration. The variation of the yield in the series I-, SCN-, and Br- is
interpreted in terms of the effect of overall free energy change on back-electron-transfer in the uranium(V)/radical pair. With
the chloride system no significant yield of radical anion was observed. The decay of X2’- was found to be unaffected by the presence
of uranyl ion, supporting the previously suggested mechanism for radical-anion decay in these systems. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic00333a021