Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China.
Department of Physics and Chemistry, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, Henan 454000, China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Sep 21;55(74):11139-11142. doi: 10.1039/c9cc05021c. Epub 2019 Aug 29.
Two unprecedented metal borate-iodates, SrB(OH) (SBIO) and LiSrBO(OH) (LSBIO), were synthesized via the strategy of introducing (IO) into borates. In particular, the LSBIO possessed a new BO fundamental building block (FBB). The two compounds integrated the advantages of both pure iodates and borates, showing enlarged band gaps and birefringence. Moreover, diverse B-O FBBs achieved the modulation of birefringence. This work reported the first two examples of borate-iodates.