Gemmill William R, Smith Mark D, Loye Hans-Conrad Zur
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
Inorg Chem. 2007 Mar 19;46(6):2132-8. doi: 10.1021/ic0617083. Epub 2007 Feb 27.
The lanthanide-containing ruthenium oxides Ln14Na3Ru6O36 (Ln = Pr, Nd) were prepared as single crystals from molten sodium hydroxide. The two compounds crystallize in the rhombohedral space group Rc with cell constants of a = 9.7380(2) and 9.6781(2) Angstrom and c = 55.5716(18) and 55.4156(18) Angstrom for Ln14Na3Ru6O36 (Ln = Pr, Nd), respectively. The structure of the two compounds is composed of two types of slabs that alternate in an AB fashion. Each slab consists of three layers and are arranged to yield a unit cell with a 12-layer structure. Both compounds exhibit magnetic behavior consistent with canted antiferromagnetism.
