Abstract: | Cu4O12 Groups Built of Square Planar CuO4 Polygones in the Barium Vanadyl Oxocuprate(II) Phosphate Ba(VO)Cu4(PO4)4 Single crystals of Ba(VO)Cu4(PO4)4 have been prepared by solid state reactions just below the melting points of the reaction mixtures of BaP2O6, Cu3(PO4)2, CuO, V2O5 and V2O3 in evacuated closed quartz glas tubes. The compound crystallizes with tetragonal symmetry, Space group D? P4212, a = 9.560(2), c = 7.160(2) Å, Z = 2. Special and new features of the crystal structure are to each other isolated Cu4O12 and (VO)(PO4)4 groups. The crystal chemistry of the Cu4O12 groups is discussed with respect to other compounds containing out of plane connected square planar MO4 polygones. |