Potassium indium diarsenate(V) was grown under mild hydrothermal conditions (T = 493 K, 7 d) at a pH value of about 1. It adopts the TlInAs 2 O 7 structure type (P1, Z = 4) and is closely related to the KAlP 2 O 7 (P2 1 /c) and RbAlAs 2 O 7 (P1) structure types. The framework topology of KInAs 2 O 7 is built of two symmetrically non-equivalent As 2 O 7 groups which share corners with InO 6 octahedra. The K atoms are located in channels extending along [010].
Chemical contextMetal arsenates often form tetrahedral-octahedral framework structures exhibiting potentially interesting properties, such as ion conductivity, ion exchange and catalytic properties (Masquelier et al., 1990(Masquelier et al., , 1994a(Masquelier et al., ,b, 1995(Masquelier et al., , 1996(Masquelier et al., , 1998Mesa et al., 2000;Ouerfelli et al., 2007aOuerfelli et al., , 2008Pintard-Scré pel et al., 1983;Rousse et al., 2013). During a detailed study of the system M + -M
3+-As-O-(H) by hydrothermal syntheses, a large variety of new compounds and structure types were found (Kolitsch, 2004;Schwendtner, 2006;Schwendtner & Kolitsch, 2004a,b, 2005,b,c,d, 2017a. KInAs 2 O 7 is another example of a microporous metal diarsenate compound forming a tetrahedral-octahedral framework structure. M + M 3+ As 2 O 7 compounds crystallize in six known structure types (for a short review, see: Schwendtner & Kolitsch, 2017b), some of these diarsenates being also isotypic to diphosphates or disilicates. For several of the structures, the M + cation is the relevant factor that determines which structure type is adopted, while a wide range of different M 3+ cations are usually accepted. For example, the CaZrSi 2 O 7 structure type (mineral gittinsite; Roelofsen-Ahl & Peterson, 1989) is formed by all Li members (and one Na member), with M 3+ cations ranging from M = Al, Ga, Fe to Sc (Schwendtner & Kolitsch, 2007d;Wang et al., 1994 Table 1).The asymmetric unit contains 22 atoms, all of which lie on general positions. Each InO 6 octahedron shares corners with five different AsO 4 tetrahedra, thus creating a framework structure. Two of these connections are to two AsO 4 tetrahedra of the same As 2 O 7 group (see Fig. 1). The K + cations are situated in small channels extending along [010] (see Fig. 2) and have irregular coordination spheres, with ten (K1) and seven (K2) O atoms within 3.5 Å .The AsO 4 tetrahedra are strongly distorted, with bondlength distortion (Brown & Shannon, 1973) ranging from 0.0020 to 0.0024, while the average As-O distances (1.685, 1.687, 1.689 and 1.690 Å for As1-4, respectively, see Table 1 Comparison of the unit-cell parameters of diarsenates isotypic with KInAs 2 O 7 and closely related structure types. (2015); (7) Kolitsch (2004); (8)
Figure 1The principal building unit of KInAs 2 O 7 , shown as displacement ellipsoids at the 70% probability level. The In1O 6 octahedron is considerably more distorted than the In2-centred octahedron. In fact, the In1O 6 octahedron shows the strongest distortion among all of the isotypic In compounds (S...