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Inorg Chem. 2015 Jun 15;54(12):5981-90. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00789. Epub 2015 May 28.

Effects of Te(IV) Oxo-Anion Incorporation into Thorium Molybdates and Tungstates.

Inorganic chemistry

Bin Xiao, Martina Klinkenberg, Dirk Bosbach, Evgeny V Suleimanov, Evgeny V Alekseev

Affiliations

  1. †Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-6), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany.
  2. ‡Institut für Kristallographie, RWTH Aachen University, 52066 Aachen, Germany.
  3. §Department of Chemistry, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

PMID: 26020835 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00789

Abstract

The exploration of phase formation in the Th-Mo/W-Te systems has resulted in four mixed oxo-anion compounds from high-temperature solid-state reactions: ThWTe2O9, Th(WO4)(TeO3), ThMoTe2O9, and Th2(MoO4)(TeO3)3. All four compounds contain edge-sharing thorium polyhedra linked by MoO4/WO6 and different tellurium oxo-groups to form three-dimensional frameworks. In ThWTe2O9, each helical Th based chain is connected by four tungstotellurite clusters resulting in a building fragment which has a cross-section of four-leafed clovers. The structure of Th(WO4)(TeO3) exhibits a multilayer-sandwich framework composed of thorium tellurite layers with tungsten chains in between. In the case of the molybdate family, ThMoTe2O9 and Th2(MoO4)(TeO3)3 are built from puckered Th-Te sheets which are further interconnected by MoO4 tetrahedral linkers. The DSC-TG technique was performed to gain insight into the thermal behavior of the synthesized compounds. Raman spectra of as-prepared phases were obtained and analyzed for signature peaks.

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