A redetermination of the crystal structures of α-calcium formate, α-strontium formate and barium formate by X-ray analyses

Structures of strontium diformate and strontium fumarate. A synchrotron powder diffraction study

“…The crystal structure after dehydration, -Sr(HCOO) 2 , is essentially as described by Watanabé & Matsui (1978) in the space group P2 1 2 1 2 1 , which differs in the C position compared with Nitta & Saito (1949;see Fig. 4a and supplementary material).…”

“…The transformations between the different forms of strontium diformate have been studied by Comel & Mentzen (1994) and Mentzen & Comel (1974a). Only strontium diformate dihydrate (Galigné, 1971) and strontium diformate in the space group P2 1 2 1 2 1 have been structurally fully characterized, although some discrepancies exist between the published structures of the latter (Nitta & Saito, 1949;Watanabé & Matsui, 1978). Furthermore, the work by Mentzen & Comel (1974a) suggested two more strontium diformate phases: one tetragonal in the space group P4 1 2 1 2 and one cubic in the space group F4 1 32.…”

Linear alkaline earth metal phosphinate coordination polymers: synthesis and structural characterization

“…For instance, in the more widely studied area of carboxylates, it has been noted for a series of alkaline earth metal formates synthesized under consistent conditions that the coordination geometry and resulting extending structure changes dramatically with a change in the metal ion size. Additionally, the carboxylate anion is able to adopt a variety of bridging modes between the metal centers (Watanabé & Matsui, 1978;Matsui et al, 1980;Viertelhaus et al, 2005;Rood et al, 2006). In the case of (II)-(IV), the M-O-P-O-M bridging mode of the diphenylphosphinate ligand is fixed and seems to play a dominant role in the formation of the chain-like coordination polymers.…”

Growth, optical, thermal, mechanical and electrical properties of anhydrous sodium formate single crystals

“…The formates of group I and II metals in periodic system exhibit strong nonlinear optical properties [2]. Crystal structures have been reported for several metal formates such as lithium formate [3], sodium formate [4], ammonium formate [5], strontium formate [6], barium formate [6], calcium formate [6], cupric formate [7] and gadolinium formate [8]. However, reports on physico-chemical properties are limited.…”