Two Unprecedented Germanoniobate Frameworks Based on High-Nuclearity Peanut-Shaped {Ge12Nb38} Clusters

Inorg Chem. 2024 Jan 15;63(2):1388-1394. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03905. Epub 2024 Jan 3.

Abstract

By variation of the amount of GeO2, two organic-inorganic hybrid germanoniobate frameworks with 6-connected pcu and 10-connected bct topologies were constructed from peanut-shaped {α-Ge12Nb38} and {β-Ge12Nb38} clusters, respectively. The {α-Ge12Nb38} and {β-Ge12Nb38} clusters contain the most Ge centers of germanoniobates reported so far. The compounds exhibit proton conduction properties with a conductivity of 3.04 × 10-4 S·cm-3 for 1 and 1.62 × 10-4 S·cm-3 for 2 at 85 °C and 98% RH. The water vapor adsorption capacities for 1 and 2 are 5.86 and 4.40 mmol·g-1, respectively.