Richard E. Wilson | Argonne National Laboratory

Biography

Richard Wilson is a chemist and the group leader of the Heavy Elements Group in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory. His research focuses on the physical and inorganic chemistry of the actinide elements, in particular protactinium and the transuranium elements. Richard’s research couples the synthesis, structural, and spectroscopic characterization of actinide molecules and materials, exploring the periodic chemical properties across the actinide series of elements. The goals of his research are to more fully understand and describe the chemical reactivity, structure, and bonding of the actinide elements to unify their properties with broader periodic table.

Education

2005 -2007 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Heavy Elements and Separation Sciences, Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory
2005 Ph.D.; Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
2000 B.S.; Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton

Awards

2012 United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Early Career Research Award

Recent Publications

M. Tarlton, T. D. Persinger, N. M. Byrne, T. C. Douglas, A. Yakovenko, R. E. Wilson. “Rare Earth Nitrate Hybrid Double Perovskites [Me₄N]₂[MLn(NO₃)₆], (M = Na-Cs; Ln = La-Gd, ex. Pm).” Inorganic Chemistry. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02081. 2023
D. C. Hutchison, D. V. Kravchuk, H. Rajapaksha, S. Stegman, T. Z. Forbes, R. E. Wilson. “Synthesis of Single Crystal Li₂NpO₄ and Li₄NpO₅ from Aqueous Lithium Hydroxide Solutions under Mild Hydrothermal Conditions.” Inorganic Chemistry. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02460
H. Oher, A. S. Pereira Gomes, R. E. Wilson, D. D. Schnaars, and V. Vallet. “How Does Bending the Uranyl Unit Influence Its Spectroscopy and Luminescence?.” Inorganic Chemistry (2023). doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00847 [COVER ARTICLE] Editor’s Choice Article.
Tarlton, Michael L., Suntharalingam Skanthakumar, Danielle Hutchison, Alexander J. Gremillion, Allen G. Oliver, and Richard E. Wilson. “Synthesis of an Isostructural Series of 12-Coordinate Lanthanide Nitrate Hybrid Double Perovskites with Cubic Symmetry.” Inorganic Chemistry 61, no. 43 (2022): 17101-17108. doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02546
Tarlton, Michael L., Suntharalingam Skanthakumar, Valérie Vallet, and Richard E. Wilson. “Hexanitrato complexes and hybrid double perovskites of Am3+ and Cm3+.” Chemical Communications 58, no. 85 (2022): 11997-12000.
Tarlton, Michael L., and Richard E. Wilson. “Synthesis and Characterization of Homoleptic Rare Earth Nitrato Complexes with the Quaternary Ammonium Cations Et4N+ and nPr4N+.” European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2022, no. 35 (2022): e202200506. doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202200506
Autillo, Matthieu, Richard E. Wilson, Monica Vasiliu, Gabriel F. de Melo, and David A. Dixon. “Periodic Trends within Actinyl (VI) Nitrates and Their Structures, Vibrational Spectra, and Electronic Properties.” Inorganic Chemistry 61, no. 39 (2022): 15607-15618. doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02434
C. Tamain, M. Autillo, D. Guillaumont, L. Guerin, R. E. Wilson, C. Berthon. Structural and Bonding Analysis in Monomeric Actinide(IV) Oxalate from Th(IV) to Pu(IV). Comparison with the An(IV) Nitrate Series. Inorganic Chemistry. 61(31), 12337-12348. 2022.
R. E. Wilson, S. Stegman, M. Tarlton. Reactions of Neptunium(V) in Alkali Metal Hydroxides. Inorganic Chemistry. 2021, 60, 23, 17480-17486.
R. E. Wilson, T. J. Carter, M. Autillo, S. Stegman. Thiocyanate Complexes of Am and Cm and the Soft Donor Hypothesis. Chemical Communications 2020.
Phuong D. Dau, Monica Vasiliu, Richard E. Wilson, David A. Dixon, John K. Gibson. Hydrolysis of Metal Dioxides Differentiates d-block from f-block Elements: Pa(V) as a 6^d Transition Metal; Pr(V) as a 4f “Lanthanyl” The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2020. 124, 44, 9272-9287. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c08171.
Evan L. Thomas, Samantha Stegman, R. E. Wilson. Low-Temperature Aqueous Synthesis and Single Crystal Structure of Disodiumneptunate, Na₂NpO₄. Chemistry –A European Journal. 2020 (HOT ARTICLE)