K6In2Q6 (Q = S,Se, Te): Missing Links in the Series of Alkali Chalcogenido Ditrielates(III) |
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Authors: | Michael Langenmaier S. Wissinger Caroline Röhr |
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Affiliation: | Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstr. 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany |
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Abstract: | The chalcogenido indates K6In2Q6 (Q = S, Se, Te) were synthesized from melts of the pure elements at a maximum temperature of 700 °C. All three potassium salts contain dinuclear units [In2Q6]6– of two edge-sharing [InQ4] tetrahedra. The sulfido and the selenido indate are isotypic and crystallize in the K6Mn2O6-type structure [monoclinic, space group P21/c, a = 784.32(9)/809.32(3), b = 1274.58(14)/1322.37(4), c = 836.48(9)/870.53(3) pm, β = 97.900(2)/97.5877(8)°, Z = 2, R1 = 0.0123/0.0109; for Q = S/Se]. The tellurido indate K6In2Te6 crystallizes in a new orthorhombic structure type [space group Pnma, a = 1793.70(12), b = 1491.55(11), c = 837.40(6) pm, Z = 4, R1 = 0.0157]. In this structure, the telluride anions form a hexagonal close packing, in which K+ cations occupy all octahedral voids; the In3+ ions take 1/6 (but always adjacent) tetrahedral voids. This structure-chemical relation to the h.c.p. packing, which is similarly found for most of the sodium dimetallates (e.g. Na6Fe2S6), is substantiated by a full crystallographic group-subgroup tree. The crystal chemistry of the new indates is discussed and compared with that of alkali chalcogenido metallates(III) of Fe, Al and Ga containing [M2Q6]6– dimers, which overall form as many as ten different structure types. DFT band structure calculations of the three title compounds exhibit bandgaps, which continuously decrease from the S to the Te compound and which are also in accordance with the pale yellow (S), bright yellow (Se) and red-brown (Te) color of the compounds. The chemical bonding in the salts and within the metallate anion is discussed on the basis of the partial DOS and a Bader analysis of the calculated electron density. |
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Keywords: | Tellurido indate Chalcogenido ditrielates Synthesis Single crystal structure determination Band structure calculation |
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