title: New fluoroborate Cd8B5O15F with two different isolated borate anions prepared by an open high-temperature solution method.
abstract: The novel cadmium fluoroborate crystal Cd8B5O15F has been successfully obtained from the reaction of the high-temperature solution method in open air for the first time. An X-ray crystallographic study of the product reveals that Cd8B5O15F crystallizes in the space group Fd3[combining macron]m. The parameters of the cubic unit cell are a = 13.972(3) Å, and Z = 8. The title compound exhibits a complicated three-dimensional (3D) network. And the crystal structure is composed of two isolated borate anions: BO3 and B(O/F)4. For the B(O/F)4 group, it consists of the occupancy of F and O with the ratio of 3 : 1. Spectroscopic properties using the IR spectrum, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Raman spectrum were measured to illustrate this feature. The thermal behavior and UV-Vis-NIR diffuse-reflectance spectrum of Cd8B5O15F are also reported in this work.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, 40-1 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China. slpan@ms.xjb.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, 40-1 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China. slpan@ms.xjb.ac.cn and Engineering Department of Chemistry and Environment, Xinjiang Institute of Engineering, 236 Nanchang Road, Urumqi 830091, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, 40-1 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China. slpan@ms.xjb.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Shilie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pan