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Title: Covalent bonding in heavy metal oxides

Abstract

Novel theoretical methods were used in this work to quantify the magnitude and the energetic contributions of 4f/5f-O2p and 5d/6d-O2p interactions to covalent bonding in lanthanide and actinide oxides. Although many analyses have neglected the involvement of the frontier d orbitals, the present study shows that f and d covalency are of comparable importance. Two trends are identified. As is expected, the covalent mixing is larger when the nominal oxidation state is higher. More subtly, the importance of the nf covalent mixing decreases sharply relative to (n+1)d as the nf occupation increases. Atomic properties of the metal cations that drive these trends are identified.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [3]
  1. Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX (United States). Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM) and Dept. of Chemistry
  2. Consultant, Austin, TX (United States)
  3. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
OSTI Identifier:
1372960
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-123570
Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606; KC0302060
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Chemical Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 146; Journal Issue: 13; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Bagus, Paul S., Nelin, Connie J., Hrovat, Dave A., and Ilton, Eugene S. Covalent bonding in heavy metal oxides. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4979018.
Bagus, Paul S., Nelin, Connie J., Hrovat, Dave A., & Ilton, Eugene S. Covalent bonding in heavy metal oxides. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4979018
Bagus, Paul S., Nelin, Connie J., Hrovat, Dave A., and Ilton, Eugene S. Tue . "Covalent bonding in heavy metal oxides". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4979018. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1372960.
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title = {Covalent bonding in heavy metal oxides},
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abstractNote = {Novel theoretical methods were used in this work to quantify the magnitude and the energetic contributions of 4f/5f-O2p and 5d/6d-O2p interactions to covalent bonding in lanthanide and actinide oxides. Although many analyses have neglected the involvement of the frontier d orbitals, the present study shows that f and d covalency are of comparable importance. Two trends are identified. As is expected, the covalent mixing is larger when the nominal oxidation state is higher. More subtly, the importance of the nf covalent mixing decreases sharply relative to (n+1)d as the nf occupation increases. Atomic properties of the metal cations that drive these trends are identified.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4979018},
journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
number = 13,
volume = 146,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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