Low-temperature synthetic route based on the amorphous nature of giant species for preparation of lower valence oxides

We examined low-temperature synthetic route based on the amorphous nature of giant species to succeed to prepare Cs blue bronze (Cs_0.3MoO₃), which has never obtained by usual high-temperature methods, at ca. 680 K. Solid solutions (K_1−xRb_x)_0.28MoO₃ and (Li_1−xNa_x)_0.9Mo₆O₁₇ were also obtained at lower temperatures (ca. 670 K). For the latter system consisting of non-isostructural end members, Li_0.9Mo₆O₁₇-structure type solid solution was formed even when 0.25<x<0.70, unlike the case by the usual high-temperature methods. Metastable mixed oxides Ln₂Mo₃O₉ (Ln=La, Gd) were obtained, but not as single phases.