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Speciation of technetium peroxo complexes in sulfuric acid revisited

Poineau, Frederic; German, Konstantin E.; Burton-Pye, Benjamin P.; Weck, Philippe F.; Kim, Eunja; Kriyzhovets, Olga; Safonov, Aleksey; Ilin, Viktor; Francesconi, Lynn C.; Sattelberger, Alfred P.; Czerwinski, Kenneth R.

The reaction of Tc(+7) with H2O2 has been studied in H2SO4 and the speciation of technetium performed by UV–visible and 99-Tc NMR spectroscopy. UV–visible measurements show that for H2SO4 ≥ 9 M and H2O2 = 0.17 M, TcO3(OH)(H2O)2 reacts immediately and blue solutions are obtained, while no reaction occurs for H2SO4 < 9 M. The spectra of the blue solutions exhibit bands centered around 520 and 650 nm which are attributed to Tc(+7) peroxo species. Studies in 6 M H2SO4 show that TcO4− begins to react for H2O2 = 2.12 M and red solutions are obtained. The UV–visible spectra of the red species are identical to the one obtained from the reaction of TcO4− with H2O2 in HNO3 and consistent with the presence of TcO(O2)2(H2O)(OH). The 99-Tc NMR spectrum of the red solution exhibits a broad signal centered at +5.5 ppm vs TcO4− and is consistent with the presence of a low symmetry Tc(+7) molecule.