[Ag2M(Te2O5)2]SO4 (M = CeIV or ThIV): A New Purely Inorganic d/f-Heterometallic Cationic Material

Todd N Poe; Frankie D White; Vanessa Proust; Eric M Villa; Matthew J Polinski

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00504

[Ag₂M(Te₂O₅)₂]SO₄ (M = Ce^IV or Th^IV): A New Purely Inorganic d/f-Heterometallic Cationic Material

Inorg Chem. 2018 May 7;57(9):4816-4819. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00504. Epub 2018 Apr 16.

Authors

Todd N Poe¹, Frankie D White², Vanessa Proust², Eric M Villa³, Matthew J Polinski¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania , 400 East Second Street , Bloomsburg , Pennsylvania 17815 , United States.
² Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Florida State University , 95 Chieftan Way , Tallahassee , Florida 32306 , United States.
³ Department of Chemistry , Creighton University , 2500 California Plaza , Omaha , Nebraska 68178 , United States.

PMID: 29658710
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00504

Abstract

Two new isotypic d/f-heterometallic purely inorganic cationic materials, [Ag₂M(Te₂O₅)₂]SO₄ (M = Ce^IV or Th^IV), were synthesized using the metal oxides (MO₂ and TeO₂), silver nitrate, and sulfuric acid under mild hydrothermal conditions. The prepared materials were characterized via single-crystal X-ray diffraction, which revealed that the materials possess a 3D framework of corner-sharing Te₂O₅^2- units. The tellurite framework creates four unique pores, three of which are occupied by the M^IV and Ag^I metal centers. The tellurite network, metal coordination, and total charge yield a cationic framework, which is charge-balanced by electrostatically bound sulfate anions residing in the largest of the four framework pores. These materials also possess Ag^I in a ligand-imposed linear geometry.