Potassium indium bis[hydrogen arsenate(V)], KIn(HAsO 4 ) 2 , rubidium indium bis[hydrogen arsenate(V)], RbIn(HAsO 4 ) 2 , and caesium indium bis[hydrogen arsenate(V)], CsIn(HAsO 4 ) 2 , were grown under mild hydrothermal conditions (T = 493 K, 7-8 d). KIn(HAsO 4 ) 2 adopts the KSc(HAsO 4 ) 2 structure type (space group C2/c), while RbIn(HAsO 4 ) 2 and CsIn(HAsO 4 ) 2 crystallize in the space group R3c and are the first arsenate representatives of the RbFe(HPO 4 ) 2 structure type. All three compounds have tetrahedral-octahedral framework topologies. The M + cations, located in voids of the respective framework, are slightly disordered in RbIn(HAsO 4 ) 2 . In KIn(HAsO 4 ) 2 , there is a second Katom position with a very low occupancy, which may suggest that the K atom can easily move in the channels extending along [101].
Chemical contextMetal arsenates often form tetrahedral-octahedral framework structures that frequently show 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., 2007a Ouerfelli et al., ,b, 2008 PintardScré pel et al., 1983;Rousse et al., 2013). In the course of a detailed study of the system M + -M 3+ -As-O-(H) by hydrothermal syntheses, a large variety of new arsenate(V) compounds and structure types were found (Kolitsch, 2004; Schwendtner, 2006; Schwendtner & Kolitsch, 2004a,b, 2005,b,c,d, 2017a.The three new title compounds belong to the family of hydrogenarsenate compounds with the general formula M + M 3+ (HAsO 4 ) 2 . Including the three compounds reported here, nine compounds with this general formula are known. They crystallize in four different structure types. KIn(HAsO 4 ) 2 is a further representative of the KSc(HAsO 4 ) 2 structure type (Schwendtner & Kolitsch, 2004a), which is also adopted by AgGa(HAsO 4 ) 2 and AgAl(HAsO 4 ) 2 (Schwendtner & Kolitsch, 2017c (Schwendtner & Kolitsch, 2017c). The asymmetric unit contains one K, one In, one As, one H and four O atoms (Fig. 1a). The slightly distorted InO 6 octahedra share corners with six HAsO 4 tetrahedra, thus forming a three-dimensional anionic framework with narrow channels parallel to [110] and [101] (Fig. 2a,b) which host the K atoms. There are two K-atom positions (K1 and K2), at a distance of 2.653 (15) Å from each other. The K1 position is located on an inversion centre and has a refined occupancy of 0.976 (2), while K2, which lies between two K1 positions, is located on a twofold axis (like the In atom) and has a refined occupancy of 0.024 (2). Both K-atom positions show a [4 + 4]-coordination with average K-O bond lengths of 2.949 and 3.016 Å for K1 and K2, respectively (Table 1). This is slightly longer than the reported average K-O bond length for lations after Gagné & Hawthorne (2015) show bond-valence sums (BVSs) of 0.99 valence units (v.u.) for K1 and 0.85 v.u. for K2, indicating an 'underbonded' charact...