Na
5InSi
4O
12 has been synthesized by a high-temperature, high-pressure hydrothermalmethod and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and solid-state NMR spectroscopy. It is isotypic to Na
5ScSi
4O
12. The structure consists of 12-membered single rings ofcorner-sharing SiO
4 tetrahedra linked together via corner sharing by single InO
6 octahedrato form a 3-D framework that delimits two types of channels along the
c-axis. There are sixindependent sodium sites. The Na atoms within the 12-ring channels are immobile and theNa atoms within 7-ring channels are highly mobile. The
29Si MAS NMR exhibits one Q
3and one Q
4 resonance, each of which is split into two peaks because of inequivalent chemicalenvironments caused by partially occupied Na sites in the 7-ring channels. Na ionconductivity measurements on a pressed pellet of the title compound were performed. TheArrhenius plot of dc conductivity shows a change in slope near 220
C. We attribute this tothe activation of the Na site that is situated between 7-ring channels and may serve as aconnecting link between the channels. Crystal data: trigonal, space group
R-3
c (No. 167),
a= 21.7158(9) Å,
c = 12.4479(7) Å, and
Z = 18.