The high-temperature modification of zinc catena-polyphosphate, beta-Zn(PO3)2.
Single crystals of the high-temperature modification of zinc catena-polyphosphate, beta-Zn(PO(3))(2), were grown from a melt and quenched from 1093 K to room temperature. The structure was solved from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data and is built of corrugated (PO(3))( infinity ) polyphosphate chains, which extend along the c direction with an eight-tetrahedra repeat. Slightly distorted [ZnO(4)] tetrahedra link the polyphosphate chains into a three-dimensional network.
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Matthias
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Institute for Chemical Technologies and Analytics, Division of Structural Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/164-SC, A-1060 Vienna, Austria. mweil@mail.zserv.tuwein.ac.at