Uranium triiodide is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula UI3. It is a black solid that is soluble in water.
Production
Uranium triiodide can be obtained from the direct reaction of its constituent elements:[3]
- 2 U + 3 I2 → 2 UI3
When the reaction is conducted in tetrahydrofuran (THF), the product is the blue complex UI3(THF)4.[4]
Properties
It crystallizes in the orthorhombic crystal system (plutonium tribromide-type) in the space group Ccmm with the lattice parameters a = 432.8 pm, b = 1401.1 pm, and c = 1000.5 pm and four formula units per unit cell.[1]
Uranium triiodide can be used as a Lewis acid catalyst for various Diels-Alder reactions carried out under mild conditions.[5]
References
- ^ a b Levy, J. H.; Taylor, J. C.; Wilson, P. W. (1975-03-01). "The structure of uranium(III) triiodide by neutron diffraction". Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry. 31 (3): 880–882. Bibcode:1975AcCrB..31..880L. doi:10.1107/S0567740875003986. ISSN 0567-7408.
- ^ Arnold F. Holleman, Nils Wiberg: Lehrbuch der Anorganischen Chemie, 102. Auflage, de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-017770-1, S. 1969.
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- ^ David L. Clark; Alfred P. Sattelberger (1996). "Lewis Base Adducts of Uranium Triiodide and Tris[Bis(Trimethylsilyl)Amido]Uranium". Inorganic Syntheses. Inorganic Synththesis. Vol. 31. pp. 307–315. doi:10.1002/9780470132623.ch55. ISBN 978-0-470-13262-3.
- ^ Collin, Jacqueline; Maria, Leonor; Santos, Isabel (Oct 2000). "Uranium iodides as catalysts for Diels–Alder reactions". Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical. 160 (2): 263–267. doi:10.1016/S1381-1169(00)00257-0.