“…From a structural point of view, it can be noted that the use of solid state synthetic techniques or hydrothermal procedures under moderately hard conditions (T > 250 °C) results in a diversity of anhydrous condensed phosphates (or arsenates) 8,9 and tunneled networks. 10 On the contrary, the syntheses performed under soft hydrothermal conditions usually lead to open frameworks (generally of lamellar morphology) including hydration water molecules, as occurs for M(VOPO 4 ) 2 ‚nH 2 O (n ) 4, M ) Na, Ca, Sr, Pb, Co, Ni, Cu; n ) 3, M) K, Rb, Pb, Ni), [11][12][13][14][15][16] K 2 (VO) 2 P 3 O 9 -(OH) 3 ‚1.125H 2 O, 17 BaVO(AsO 4 )(H 2 AsO 4 )‚H 2 O, 18 Ba 2 VO-(PO 4 ) 2 ‚H 2 O, 19 Ba 8 (VO) 6 (PO 4 ) 2 (HPO 4 ) 11 ‚3H 2 O, 20 and BaVO-(PO 4 )(HPO 4 ) H 2 O. 21 Among these last solids, the layered oxovanadium phosphate hydrates M(VOPO 4 ) 2 ‚4H 2 O can be formally thought of as derived from the 2-D network of the VOPO 4 ‚2H 2 O: 2 All of them show the same lamellar topology of the parent structure, and the guest cations are located in the interlamellar space.…”