Study on Novel Structure of Glycolic and Oxalic Acid Holmium: [Ho (C3 H6O9)]·CH3OH

Abstract

In the study of functional materials, more attention is the construction of organic–inorganic hybrid materials with structural diversity, fascinating properties, and potential applications in catalysis, molecular adsorption, medicine, electro-conductivity, magnetism and photochemistry. At present, the research work in upconversion emission in rare-earth doping materials has been greatly increased. Yb3+ and Ho3+ upconversion energy transfer is attractive, because Yb3+ and Ho3+ upconversion energy transfer is relatively simple compared to upconversion involving other rare-earth ions. In this paper, a novel holmium complex [Ho (C3 H6O9)] •CH3OH has been synthesized from a hydrothermal reaction and the crystal structure has been determined by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The Ho atom is coordinated by eight O atoms. The molecular is antisymmetric structure by the C2-C2 axis. The molecular structure stabilized by the O-H…O hydrogen-bonding interactions.