The hydroxy yttrium hexaborate,Y[B2O3（OH）]3,has been synthesized under mild hydrothermal conditions at 458 K.The crystal structure was solved and refined from single-crystal X-ray diffraction.It adopts a trigonal space group R3c（No.161） with a = 8.3942（4）,c = 20.6484（12） ,V = 1260.03（12） 3,YB6H3O12,Mr = 348.79,Z = 6,Dc = 2.758 g/cm3,F（000） = 1008,μ = 7.015 mm-1,R = 0.0321 and wR = 0.0772.Its crystal structure is made up of six-membered rings,alternating three-connected [BO3（OH）] tetrahedra and planar [BO3] trigonal groups,which are interconnected with each other by sharing their common oxygen corners to form a three-dimensional framework structure with six-membered ring channels that are occupied by the yttrium atoms and run along the c axis.FT-IR,Raman,and TG-DTA results are also presented.
A vanadyl phosphate containing a new member of tancoite-like single chain, （DAPH2）[VIVO（HPO4）2]·xH20 （x ≈ 0.2, DAP = 1,3-diaminopropane, C3H10N2）, has been synthesized under hydro（solvo）thermal conditions. It crystallizes in orthorhombic space group P21212 （No. 18） with a = 7.1730（14）, b = 19.252（4）, c = 8.6557（17） A, Z= 4, V= 1195.3（4）A3, C3H14.38N2P2VO9.19, Mr = 338.47, Dc = 1.881 g/cm3,μ（MoKa） = 1.138 mm-1 and F（000） = 692. The final full-matrix least-squares refinement converged to R = 0.0408, wR = 0.1046 for 2498 observed reflections with I 〉 2σ（I） and R = 0.0456 and wR = 0.1080 for all data （2750） and S = 1.001. Its one-dimensional 1 structure consists of tancoite-like ∞1 {vIVO（HPO4）2}2- single chains surrounded by DAPH22＋ ions and water molecules. The single chain is built from trans-corner-sharing octahedral {VIV= O…VIV} backbone loop-branched by HPO4 groups like staple forming a new member of tancoite single chain. Due to the special coordination of VIVO6, the ∞1 {VO（HPO4）2-} chain adopts a larger M-O-M angle （V-O-V = 135°） than those of tancoite chains reported before. The corner-sharing linear {VIV = O…VIV} chain structure also leads to a one-dimensional weak antiferromagnetic interaction at low temperature. The magnetic measurements confirm the 4＋ valence state of vanadium. IR and TG results of the title compound are also discussed.
A novel inorganic-organic hybrid compound, {[Co（dien）]4[0aO4）MoV8（wV10.56MoV10.44）4- O33（OH）3]}＇nH20 （1, n = 1, dien = diethylenetriamine）, has been synthesized hydrothermally and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Compound 1 crystallizes in the triclinic system with a = 11.927（2）, b = 13.328（3）, c = 19.306（4）A, a = 93.76（3）, β = 94.14（3）, γ = 109.99（3）°, V= 2863.2（12） A3, space group P1 and Z = 2 at 173 K. The final full-matrix least-squares refinement converged to R = 0.049 for 9621 observed reflections with 1 〉 2σ（I） and wR = 0.139 for all data （9871） and S = 1.073. Crystal structure analysis shows that 1 contains a kind of the first reported mixed-valence and molybdenum-tungsten mixed-distributed e-Keggin structural polyanion capped by four Co（dien） fragments with the main group element P occupying the center site. These results were further confirmed by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy （EDS）, X-ray powder diffraction （XRD）, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy （FTIR）, Raman spectroscopy, Thermogravimetry （TG） and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy （XPS） analyses.
Polyoxometalates（POMs） with Cd-coordination complexes acting as supporting units are rarely reported. The linkage of the supporting units with inorganic building block（polyanion） is generally established on terminal O-atoms, but scarcely via bridging O-atoms. By introducing liquid small organic molecule（pyridine, C5NH5） as assistant ＂structure-directing agent＂, we obtained a novel organic-inorganic hybrid polytungstate,（Hpy）4[Cd（phen）2（P2W18O62）]·nH2O（1, n ≈ 3, py = pyridine, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline）, under hydrothermal conditions. The single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis shows that 1 is the first compound containing an asymmetric heteropolyanion, [Cd（phen）2（P2W18O62）]4–, a Wells-Dawson-type polyanion monosupported by Cd-coordination complex via di-bridging O-atoms.
