Supercubooctahedron (Cs6Cl)2Cs5[Ga15Ge9Se48] Exhibiting Both Cation and Anion Exchange

Shang-Xiong Huang-Fu; Jin-Ni Shen; Hua Lin; Ling Chen; Li-Ming Wu

doi:10.1002/chem.201405719

Supercubooctahedron (Cs6Cl)2Cs5[Ga15Ge9Se48] Exhibiting Both Cation and Anion Exchange

Chemistry. 2015 Jun 26;21(27):9809-15. doi: 10.1002/chem.201405719. Epub 2015 May 15.

Authors

Shang-Xiong Huang-Fu^{1

2}, Jin-Ni Shen^{1

2}, Hua Lin¹, Ling Chen¹, Li-Ming Wu³

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002 (P. R. China).
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039 (P. R. China).
³ Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002 (P. R. China). [email protected].

PMID: 25982195
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201405719

Abstract

A novel type of supertetrahedral connectivity is exhibited by the 72-atom discrete supercubooctahedron in (Cs6Cl)2Cs5[Ga15Ge9Se48] (1), which undergoes both cation and anion exchange, as revealed by unambiguous single-crystal X-ray diffraction data. Electronic-structure studies helped to understand the Ge/Ga distribution.

Keywords: chalcogenides; cluster compounds; ion exchange; solid-state reactions; solid-state structures.