Four unusual inorganic-organic nanocomposites containing extended alkali halidestructures, present as layers or as three-dimensional units, have been synthesized by ametathetic reaction carried out under hydrothermal conditions. These compounds, withcadmium oxalate host lattices and the alkali halide structures as guests, have thecompositions [RbCl][Cd
6(C
2O
4)
6]·2H
2O,
I; 2[CsBr][Cd(C
2O
4)]·H
2O,
II; 2[CsBr][Cd
2(C
2O
4)(Br)
2]·2H
2O,
III; and 3[RbCl][Cd
2(C
2O
4)(Cl
2)]·H
2O,
IV. Crystal data for
I, rhombohedral, spacegroup =
R-3 (no. 148),
a = 9.3859(3),
c = 23.9086(8) Å;
V = 1824.05(1) Å
3,
Z = 18,
M =1359.51,
calcd = 3.702 g cm
-3,
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(Mo K
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) = 7.375 mm
-1,
R1 = 0.04,
wR2 = 0.0904 [537 observedreflections with
I > 2
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(
I)]; for
II, orthorhombic, space group =
Pbcm (no. 57),
a = 6.0854(6),
b = 11.0793(11),
c = 16.889(2) Å;
V = 1138.7(2) Å
3,
Z = 8,
M = 644.06,
calcd = 3.745 g cm
-3,
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(Mo K
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) = 15.219 mm
-1,
R1 = 0.04,
wR2 = 0.08 [408 observed reflections with
I > 2
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(
I)];for
III, orthorhombic, space group =
Cmcm (no.63),
a = 23.6
151(14),
b = 10.2528(6),
c =7.8199(6) Å;
V = 1894.2(2) Å
3,
Z = 16,
M = 970.33,
calcd = 3.374 g cm
-3,
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(Mo K
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) = 14.487mm
-1,
R1 = 0.03,
wR2 = 0.0
744 [651 observed reflections with
I > 2
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(
I)]; for
IV, monoclinic,space group =
P2
1/
c (no. 14),
a = 8.0648(2)(3),
b = 22.9026(4),
c = 9.3967(3) Å;
V = 1681.10(7)Å
3,
Z = 4,
M = 782.53,
calcd = 3.076 g cm
-3,
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(Mo K
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) = 11.961 mm
-1,
R1 = 0.04,
wR2 =0.093 [2071 observed reflections with
I > 2
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(
I)]. Compounds
I-
IV possess many unusualstructural features. While
I has interpenetrating lattices of the three-dimensional cadmiumoxalate and RbCl with an expanded lattice, giving rise to a super rock-salt cell,
II possessesalternating cadmium oxalate and CsBr layers, the latter comprising six-membered CsBrrings. Compounds
III and
IV have isolated cadmium oxalate units (zero-dimensional) linkedand stabilized by the alkali halides.