Thermal dehydration of H3 + xPVxM12 − xO40·yH2O Keggin type heteropolyacids; formation, thermal stability and structure of the anhydrous acids H3PM12O40, of the corresponding anhydrides PM12O38.5 and of a novel trihydrate H3PW12O40·3H2O

Autor: Estrella Escalona Platero, Laszlo Marosi, Joan Cifre, Carlos Otero Areán
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Journal of Materials Chemistry. 10:1949-1955
ISSN: 1364-5501
0959-9428
DOI: 10.1039/b001476l
Popis: The formation and thermal stability of the catalytically important anhydrous acids H3PM12O40 (M = Mo,W,V), of the corresponding anhydrides PM12O38.5 and of a novel first time isolated trihydrate H3PW12O40·3H2O have been studied by high temperature X-ray diffraction (XRD) and thermogravimetry (TG). The corresponding crystal structures were determined from X-ray powder data using the Rietveld method and by deriving three-dimensional structure models from the experimental radial distribution functions. The true unit cell symmetry of the anhydrous acid H3PMo12O40 is rhombohedral, space group R3, a = 11.48 A, α = 87.46°, Z = 2. Its crystal structure is built up from distorted (PMo12O40) Keggin units. The molecular centers of the Keggin units form a rhombohedral distorted cubic body centered lattice. The structure resembles that of the cubic ammonium/potassium salts. However, due to the formation of hydrogen bridges between the polyanions, the orientation of the Keggin units is different. Heat treatment of the anhydrous acid between 673 K and 733 K leads to the release of the constitutional water molecules with the formation of an amorphous anhydride. The anhydride structure is built up from lacunary polyions PMo12O38+ and PMo12O39− in a three dimensional arrangement very similar to that of the corresponding anhydrous acid. However, the mutual orientation of the polyions is largely disordered. Dehydration of H3PW12O40·6H2O between 413 K and 453 K results in the formation of a new cubic acid containing three molecules of water of crystallization. Its structure is closely related to that of the well known hexahydrate. Both structures may be thought of as being made up of two different interpenetrating substructures of anions and cations with space group symmetry Pn3m. The anionic substructures are similar; the cationic substructures, however, are different. In the hexahydrate structure the polyanions are linked by nearly planar H5O2+ dioxonium cations and the oxygen atoms occupy the x,¼,¾ crystallographic sites. The release of water leads to the formation of H3O+ oxonium cations which occupy the regular cationic positions ¼,¾,¾. The molecular formula of the new trihydrate should be written as (H3O+)3PW12O40.
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