Abstract
Single crystals of strontium tetracobalt tris(orthophosphate) hydroxide, SrCo4(OH)(PO4)3, were grown serendipitously under hydrothermal conditions at 473 K. The crystal structure consists of undulating chains of edge-sharing [CoO6] octahedra that are linked into (010) layers by common vertices between chains. Adjacent layers are linked along [010] into a framework structure by tetrahedral [CoO4] units and by PO4 tetrahedra. The framework delimits channels extending along [100] in which the eleven-coordinate strontium cations are situated. Bifurcated O—H...O hydrogen bonds of weak strengths consolidate the crystal packing. The title compound was also characterized by infrared spectroscopy.
Publisher
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science,General Chemistry