TY - JOUR AU - Langer, Eike M. AU - Kegler, Philip AU - Kowalski, Piotr M. AU - Wang, Shuao AU - Alekseev, Evgeny V. TI - Achieving and Stabilizing Uranyl Bending via Physical Pressure JO - Inorganic chemistry VL - 60 IS - 12 SN - 0020-1669 CY - Washington, DC PB - American Chemical Society M1 - FZJ-2022-00125 SP - 8419 - 8422 PY - 2021 AB - Applying physical pressure in the uranyl–sulfate system has resulted in the formation of the first purely inorganic uranyl oxo-salt phase with a considerable uranyl bend: Na4[(UO2)(SO4)3]. In addition to a strong bend of the typically almost linear O═U═O, the typically equatorial plane is broken up by two out-of-plane oxygen positions. Computational investigations show the origin of the bending to lie in the applied physical pressure and not in the electronic influence or steric hindrance. The increase in pressure onto the system has been shown to increase uranyl bending. Furthermore, the phase formation is compared with a reference phase of a similar structure without uranyl bending, and a transition pressure of 2.5 GPa is predicted, which is well in agreement with the experimental results. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - 34096717 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000664576700009 DO - DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00644 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/904795 ER -