title: Increasing the dimensionality of hybrid vanadium oxyfluorides using ionothermal synthesis.
abstract: A unique organically-templated vanadium(IV) oxyfluoride, [pyH][V(2)O(2)F(5)] has been prepared using an ionothermal approach. This compound has a novel layered structure which may be considered as arising via condensation of previously known 'ladder-like' structural building units. This suggests that ionothermal synthesis may provide a more effective route to extended network structures in these systems than the more widely explored hydrothermal-based media.
authors.affiliation: EaStChem, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK KY16 9ST.
authors.forename: Farida
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Himeur
authors.forename: Phoebe K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Allan
authors.forename: Simon J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Teat
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Goff
authors.forename: Russell E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: Philip
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authors.lastname: Lightfoot