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Structure solution of a novel aluminium methylphosphonate using a new simulated annealing program and powder X-ray
Mark Edgar1, Vinton J Carter, David P Tunstall
1School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK KY16 9ST.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 19, 2002
Abstract:
The structure of a novel layered aluminium methylphosphonate, formula Al2(CH3PO3)3, has been solved from laboratory X-ray powder diffraction data by simulated annealing of five independent structural sub-units, revealing a combination of four- and five-fold coordinated aluminiums within the inorganic lamellae that is unique for this kind of solid.