Iodo-oxyapatite, the first example from a new class of modulated apatites.
Iodo-oxyapatite [pentadecacalcium iodide oxide nonaphosphate, Ca(15)(PO(4))(9)IO] was synthesized by a flux method and the structure was solved from single-crystal X-ray data. The crystal structure was refined in the space group P6(3)/m [a = 9.567 (1), c = 20.754 (2) Å and Z = 2] to wR on F of 0.0459. Iodo-oxyapatite has a typical hexagonal apatite structure but the unit cell is tripled along the hexad owing to ordering of the iodide and oxide ions along this direction.
Inorganic Chemistry, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. peter@inorg.su.se
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