A Barium Vanadium(V) Selenite Hydrate, Ba(VO2)2(SeO3)2·H2O: A Novel 3D Polymer of Cross-Linked Sheets with Embedded ···V–O–V··· 21 Helices

Abstract

The characterisation, by a single-crystal X-ray study at ~150 K, of brown acicular crystals of barium(ii) bis(dioxovanadium(v)) bis(selenite(iv)) monohydrate, BaSe2V2O10·H2O, obtained as a minor product of the synthesis of the previously reported ‘Ba(VO)2(SeO3)2(HSeO3)2’, is recorded. Crystals are monoclinic, P21/c, a = 10.803(2), b = 5.1126(8), c = 17.905(3) Å, β = 92.048(2)°, V = 988.3(3) Å3, 2456 independent diffractometer reflections refining to R1 = 0.032, wR2 = 0.084. A single BaV2Se2O11H2 formula unit, devoid of crystallographic symmetry, comprises the asymmetric unit of the structure, which is a three-dimensional polymer, with component sheets parallel to the crystallographic b axis, containing pentavalent vanadium atoms, one five-, the other six-coordinate, linked by selenite pyramids.