NOVEL Crystal Structures of Vanadyl Gallophosphates

 

Sue-Lein Wang

 

Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300 (slwang@mx.nthu.edu.tw)

 

 

Substitution of the first-raw transition metal (TM) ions for Al3+ in the frameworks of aluminum phosphates is of particular interest for the enhancement of catalytic activity and the design of novel catalysts. The location and environment of the TM ion site is of considerable importance for understanding the catalytic and adsorptive properties of molecular sieves. As only few single-crystal data available for most of the MAlPO-n samples, actual incorporation of TM ions into the tetrahedral frameworks is difficult to prove [1] Owing to the similarity in the framework topology, the search for gallium phosphates adopting microporous structures has attracted much attention [2,3] By employing hydrothermal crystallization, we have prepared a series of novel open frameworks including the first 24-ring containing gallium phosphate phase [4] which exhibits large channels with a measured pore diameter of ~11.2 . In this presentation, the crystal structures and magnetic properties of several large-channel containing VGaPO frameworks shall be described and discussed.

 

References

1              Hartmann, M., Kevan, L., (1999) Chem. Rev. 99, 635, and references therein.

2              Cheetham, A. K., Ferey, G., Loiseau, T. (1999) Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 38, 3268.

3              Lin, C. H., Wang, S. L. (2000) Chem. Mater. 12, 3617, and references therein.

4              Lin, C. H., Wang, S. L., Lii, K. H. (2001) J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 123, 4649.