title: Structural variety in zinc telluro-phosphates: syntheses, crystal structures and characterizations of Sr2Zn3Te2P2O14, Pb2Zn3Te2P2O14 and Ba2Zn2TeP2O11.
abstract: Three new zinc telluro-phosphates, Sr2Zn3Te2P2O14 (1), Pb2Zn3Te2P2O14 (2) and Ba2Zn2TeP2O11 (3), were grown by flux method, and their crystal structures were solved by X-ray diffraction method. Although all three crystals crystallize into the same space group P21/c with similar chemical compositions, they exhibit different topology structure types. 1 features a two-dimensional layered structure with the connection of TeO4 and (Zn3TeP2O18)(16-) 12-membered rings (MRs), which are composed of planar square and tetrahedral configuration ZnO4 groups, tetrahedral PO4 and seesaw TeO4. Due to lone-pair Coulomb repulsion of Pb(2+), the structure of 2, which is also composed of unbalanced seesaw TeO4 and ZnO4 groups and distorted PO4 tetrahedra, is slightly different from that of its analog 1. Compound 3 exhibits a complicated three-dimensional network with (Zn2PO9)(9-) 6-MRs and (Zn2Te2O10)(8-) 8-MRs built from distorted tetrahedral ZnO4 and PO4 groups and trigonal pyramidal TeO3 units. According to UV-vis-NIR diffuse reflectance spectra, compounds 1, 2 and 3 are highly transparent in the range of 450 to 2500 nm with a UV cut-off of 275 nm, 330 nm and 278 nm, respectively. In addition, the characterizations, including thermal analyses, XPS measurement and dipole moment calculations, are also reported.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Center for Crystal Research and Development, Key Laboratory of Functional Crystals and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. rkli@mail.ipc.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Mingjun
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Li