title: Templated synthesis of mesolamellar n-alkylamine borophosphates.
abstract: A family of lamellar mesostructured n-alkylamine borophosphates, denoted C n A-BPO (BPO stands for inorganic borophosphate layer; n = 9-15, the number of carbon atoms in the n-alkylamine chain) has been prepared hydrothermally at 160 degrees C by using neutral n-alkylamines as templates. Those C n A-BPO compounds were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), thermogravimetric measurements, and differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA) as well as chemical analyses. Interestingly, these compounds may form a bilayer, a monolayer, or mixed state of bilayer and monolayer structures depending on the content of n-alkylamine. Linear relationships for both bilayer and monolayer compounds were observed between the interlayer distances and the numbers of carbon atoms in the n-alkylamine chain. The thickness of the inorganic layers, the arrangement of n-alkylamine in the interlayer space, and the composition of the compounds are proposed.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, PR China.
authors.forename: Shuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Horst
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Borrmann
authors.forename: Ya-Xi
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Zhi-Jun
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hao-Hong
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jing-Tai
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Zhao