Assessing ligand selectivity for uranium over vanadium ions to aid in the discovery of superior adsorbents for extraction of UO22+ from seawater
Abstract
Uranium is used as the basic fuel for nuclear power plants, which generate significant amounts of electricity and have life cycle carbon emissions that are as low as renewable energy sources. However, the extraction of this valuable energy commodity from the ground remains controversial, mainly because of environmental and health impacts. Alternatively, seawater offers an enormous uranium resource that may be tapped at minimal environmental cost. Nowadays, amidoxime polymers are the most widely utilized sorbent materials for large-scale extraction of uranium from seawater, but they are not perfectly selective for uranyl, UO22+. In particular, the competition between UO22+ and VO2+/VO2+ cations poses a significant challenge to the effi-cient mining of UO22+. Thus, screening and rational design of more selective ligands must be accomplished. One of the key components in achieving this goal is the establishment of computational techniques capable of assessing ligand selec-tivity trends. Here, we report an approach based on quantum chemical calculations that achieves high accuracy in repro-ducing experimental aqueous stability constants for VO2+/VO2+ complexes with ten different oxygen donor lig-ands. The predictive power of the developed computational protocol was demonstrated for amidoxime-type ligands, providing greater insights into new design strategies for the development of the next generationmore »
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1331080
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Dalton Transactions
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 45; Journal Issue: 26; Journal ID: ISSN 1477-9226
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 07 ISOTOPE AND RADIATION SOURCES; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Ivanov, Alexander S., and Bryantsev, Vyacheslav S. Assessing ligand selectivity for uranium over vanadium ions to aid in the discovery of superior adsorbents for extraction of UO22+ from seawater. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1039/C6DT01752E.
Ivanov, Alexander S., & Bryantsev, Vyacheslav S. Assessing ligand selectivity for uranium over vanadium ions to aid in the discovery of superior adsorbents for extraction of UO22+ from seawater. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6DT01752E
Ivanov, Alexander S., and Bryantsev, Vyacheslav S. Mon .
"Assessing ligand selectivity for uranium over vanadium ions to aid in the discovery of superior adsorbents for extraction of UO22+ from seawater". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6DT01752E. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1331080.
@article{osti_1331080,
title = {Assessing ligand selectivity for uranium over vanadium ions to aid in the discovery of superior adsorbents for extraction of UO22+ from seawater},
author = {Ivanov, Alexander S. and Bryantsev, Vyacheslav S.},
abstractNote = {Uranium is used as the basic fuel for nuclear power plants, which generate significant amounts of electricity and have life cycle carbon emissions that are as low as renewable energy sources. However, the extraction of this valuable energy commodity from the ground remains controversial, mainly because of environmental and health impacts. Alternatively, seawater offers an enormous uranium resource that may be tapped at minimal environmental cost. Nowadays, amidoxime polymers are the most widely utilized sorbent materials for large-scale extraction of uranium from seawater, but they are not perfectly selective for uranyl, UO22+. In particular, the competition between UO22+ and VO2+/VO2+ cations poses a significant challenge to the effi-cient mining of UO22+. Thus, screening and rational design of more selective ligands must be accomplished. One of the key components in achieving this goal is the establishment of computational techniques capable of assessing ligand selec-tivity trends. Here, we report an approach based on quantum chemical calculations that achieves high accuracy in repro-ducing experimental aqueous stability constants for VO2+/VO2+ complexes with ten different oxygen donor lig-ands. The predictive power of the developed computational protocol was demonstrated for amidoxime-type ligands, providing greater insights into new design strategies for the development of the next generation of adsorbents with high selectivity toward UO22+over VO2+/VO2+ ions. Furthermore, the results of calculations suggest that alkylation of amidox-ime moieties present in poly(acrylamidoxime) sorbents can be a potential route to better discrimination between the uranyl and competing vanadium ions within seawater.},
doi = {10.1039/C6DT01752E},
journal = {Dalton Transactions},
number = 26,
volume = 45,
place = {United States},
year = {2016},
month = {6}
}
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