A layered fluorinated gallium phosphate organically templated by propane‐1,3‐diaminium,an analog of the aluminophosphate MIL‐12: Ga2(PO4)F5·C3H12N2

Crystals of the oxyfluorinated gallium phosphate MIL‐12 (digallium phosphate penta­fluoride propane‐1,3‐diaminium), (C₃H₁₂N₂)Ga₂(PO₄)F₅], were synthesized hydro­thermally at 453 K under autogenous pressure using propane‐1,3‐diamine as the structure‐directing agent. The title compound is isomorphous with the aluminium phosphate having the MIL‐12 structural type. The structure is built up from a two‐dimensional anionic network inter­calated by the diamine species. The inorganic layer is composed of corner‐linked GaO₂F₄ octa­hedra and PO₄ tetra­hedra. The diprotonated diamine group is located on a mirror plane, between the inorganic sheets, and inter­acts preferentially via hydrogen bonding through the ammonium groups and the terminal F and bridging O atoms of the inorganic layer. One of the Ga atoms lies on an inversion centre and the other lies on a mirror plane, as does the P atom, two of the phosphate O atoms and one of the F atoms.