ISSN:
1600-5740
Source:
Crystallography Journals Online : IUCR Backfile Archive 1948-2001
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Geosciences
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Physics
Notes:
The crystal structures of two intercalated compounds have been determined using a combination of synchrotron powder diffraction and molecular mechanics simulations: (1) vanadyl phosphate intercalated with tetrahydrofuran, VOPO4·(CH2)4O, and (2) vanadyl phosphate intercalated with diethylene glycol, VOPO4·HO(CH2)2O(CH2)2OH. Both intercalates preserve the tetragonal space group P4/n, as found in the host structure VOPO4·2H2O. (1): a = 6.208, c = 8.930 Å, Z = 2, Dx = 2.51 g cm−3; (2): a = 6.223, c = 11.417 Å, Z = 2, Dx = 2.66 g cm−3. Both intercalates exhibit the same type of orientational disorder in the arrangement of guest molecules, as observed in the same host compound intercalated with water. These two intercalates also exhibit, rather surprisingly, perfect ordering in layer stacking without the displacement disorder, characteristic of many intercalated layered structures. Thanks to this regularity in the arrangement of guests and layers, synchrotron powder diffraction could be used in the present structure determination. The present results also enabled the analysis of the effect of geometrical parameters characterizing the mutual host–guest complementarity and the effect of host–guest and guest–guest interaction on the crystal packing of intercalates.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0108768100015603
