Probing the electronic structure of uranium(IV) compounds by Inelastic Neutron Scattering

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An understanding of the electronic structure of the actinide elements is one of the most intriguing and complex topics in contemporary chemistry. In particular the magnetic properties of uranium, the heaviest element that can be used in normal laboratories, are difficult to understand as crystal field splittings are of the same order as spin orbit couplings. Despite many reports in the literature over the past 7 decades this is still a hot topic. Here we aim to rationalise the anomalous low temperature magnetism of A4[U(NCS)8] (A = Et4N; Cs) whereby the low temperature magnetic moment is significantly different. In order to probe the low energy exciited states we will use Inelastic Neutron Scattering to directly measure these; this would be one of the very few such studies on any uranium compound.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73944367
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73944367
Provenance
Creator Dr Duc Le; Mr stefano Nuzzo; Dr Robert Baker; Dr Helen Walker
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-03-14T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-03-21T09:00:00Z