Crystal chemistry and topology of simple rare-earth sulfates: synthesis, crystal structures, and spectroscopy of compounds with the general formula Ln2(SO4)3•8H2O
摘要
Single crystals of rare-earth sulfates of the general formula Ln2(SO4)3•8H2O (Ln = Ce—Nd, Sm—Lu, Y) were obtained by dissolution of corresponding oxides or by recrystallization of the sulfates from 20% sulfuric acid. The crystal structures were determined by X-ray diffraction. The compounds crystallize in the monoclinic unit cell (space group C2/c) with the lattice constants a ∼13.4–13.7 Å, b ∼6.6–6.9 Å, c ∼18.0–18.5 Å, and β ∼102.1–103.1°. The crystal structures are based on electroneutral heteropolyhedral layers ∞2{Ln2(H2O)8(SO4)3} formed by isolated Lnφ8 polyhedra (φ = O2−, H2O0) connected by (SO4) tetrahedra through common oxygen vertices. Adjacent heteropolyhedral layers are parallel to the (