Liu Zhi-Hong, Yang Ping, Li Ping
School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, People's Republic of China. liuzh@ snnu.edu.cn
Inorg Chem. 2007 Apr 16;46(8):2965-7. doi: 10.1021/ic070056v. Epub 2007 Mar 20.
The first chiral zeolite-like galloborate, K2[Ga(B5O10)].4H2O, has been synthesized by a mild solvothermal method and characterized by Fourier transform IR, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, thermogravimetric/differential thermal analysis, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. This compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic system with space group C2221. The structure possesses a 3D open framework constructed by B5O10 clusters and GaO4 units and contains large odd 11-ring channels.
