Citric acid is found along with uranyl in the subsurface of former nuclear facilities because of its use as a decontamination agent in the nuclear industry. Citrate’s metal chelating properties affect the mobility of uranyl in the subsurface and consequently, citrate biodegradation may significantly impact uranyl fate and transport. Under the non-growth conditions considered, low (micromolar) u...

An optimized and validated spectrophotometric method has been described for the quantitative analysis of uranyl ion in soil samples. The method is based on the chelation of uranyl ion with piroxicam to produce a yellow complex in 1,4-dioxan–water medium at room temperature which absorbs maximally at 390 nm. Beer’s law is obeyed in the concentration range of 6.75 × 10 – 9.45 × 10 μg mL with appa...

Previous in vivo studies have shown that the presystemic clearance of p.o.-administered levo-isomer of propranolol is inhibited in rats with uranyl nitrate-induced acute renal failure. A series of steady-state single-pass rat liver perfusion studies were performed to explore the probable mechanism of the observed metabolic inhibition. When livers from normal rats were perfused with blood perfus...

Synthesis of molybdenum(vi) dioxido complexes 1-3, coordinated by one or two functionalized iminophenolate ligands HL1 or HL2, bearing a donor atom side chain or a phenyl substituent, respectively, allowed for systematic investigation of the oxygen atom transfer (OAT) reactivity of such complexes towards phosphanes. Depending on stoichiometry and employed phosphane (PMe3 or PPh3), different mol...

The conventional concept of selective complexation of actinides with soft donor ligands (either S or N donor) has been modified here through exploiting the concept, "intra-ligand synergism", where a hard donor atom, such as oxygen preferentially binds to trivalent actinides [An(iii)] as compared to the valence iso-electronic trivalent lanthanides [Ln(iii)] in presence of another soft donor cent...

Several PNP-type diphosphine ligands have been synthesised and characterised, featuring a single or double N-bridge between the P-donor atoms. PNP 1 2 containing diazaphospholane donors been...

Ambient and liquid helium temperature laser-induced time-resolved uranyl fluorescence spectroscopy was applied to study the speciation of aqueous uranyl solutions containing carbonate and phosphate and two porewater samples obtained by ultracentrifugation of U(VI)-contaminated sediments. The significantly enhanced fluorescence signal intensity and spectral resolution found at liquid helium temp...

A new series of donor-stabilized addition complexes of cobalt(II) with disubstituted diphenyldithiophosphates [{(ArO)2PS2}2CoL2] {Ar = 2,4-(CH3)2C6H3 [(1)-(3)] and 3,5-(CH3)2C6H3 [(4)-(6)]; L = C5H5N [(1), (4)], 3,4-(CH3)2C5H3N [(2), (5)] and 4-(C2H5)C5H4N [(3), (6)]} were successfully isolated and characterized by elemental analyses, magnetic moment measurements, IR and single-crystal X-ray an...