The title compound, Mu-7, is a new layered aluminophosphate. It was obtained from aquasi-nonaqueous system in
vol
ving methylformamide (MF) as sol
vent in addition to restrictedamounts of water. MF is decomposed into methylamine during synthesis and the latter isoccluded into the interlayer spacing of the material. The structure was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The symmetry is triclinic, space group
P![](/images/entities/onemacr.gif)
,
a = 8.368(7),
b = 11.274(10),
c = 11.462(12) Å,
![](/images/gifchars/alpha.gif)
= 72.40(7),
![](/images/gifchars/beta2.gif)
= 89.45(8), and
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= 85.37(7)
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. Mu-7 is built fromzigzag ladder-type chains connected to form layers containing only four- and eight-memberedrings. Mu-7 is the first lamellar aluminophosphate ha
ving such a 4 × 8 network.Characterization of the new compound by
13C,
27Al, and
31P solid-state NMR spectroscopy,bulk chemical analysis and TG/DSC is reported. A possible crystallization mechanism basedon the condensation between "parent" ([AlP
2O
8H
2]
-) and zigzag ladder-type ([Al
4P
4O
20H
4]
4-)chains is proposed.