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Atomic Scale Structural Studies of Macromolecular Assemblies by Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Published on: September 17, 2017
"NaB15": a new structural description based on X-ray and neutron diffraction, electron microscopy, and solid-state
1Institut fur Anorganische und Analytische Chemie I, Justus-Liebig-Universitat, Giessen, Germany. barbara.albert@anorg.chemie.uni-giessen.de
Abstract:
A boron-rich sodium boride, formerly known as NaB15, has been subjected to a comprehensive structural reinvestigation using X-ray single-crystal and powder diffraction, low-temperature neutron and electron diffraction, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, and 23Na solid-state NMR spectroscopy. The results indicate that the previously published orthorhombic space group is incorrect. Consistent with all of the experimental results a modified structural description is developed in the monoclinic space group Ilml (a = 585.92(3), b= 1039.92(6), c = 833.17(5) pin, beta = 90.373(5) from powder data). Because one of the interstitial boron atom positions remains unoccupied, the accurate compositional formula is NaB145 or Na2B29.
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