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Sylvia Britto1, P Vishnu Kamath
1Department of Chemistry, Central College, Bangalore University, Bangalore 560 001, India.
Abstract:
Incorporation of Zn(2+) into bayerite results in the formation of a cation-ordered layered double hydroxide (LDH) of monoclinic symmetry in which about half the vacancies of Al(OH)(3) are occupied by Zn(2+) giving rise to positively charged layers. Charge compensation takes place by the incorporation of sulfate ions in the interlayer region. Structure refinement reveals that the adjacent layers in the crystal are related by a 2(1) axis (we call it 2M(1) polytype) with sulfate coordinating in the D(2d) symmetry in the interlayer region. Another polytype in which adjacent layers are related by a 2-fold axis (2M(2) polytype) can also be envisaged. Faulted crystals arising from intergrowths of the 2M(2) polytype within the 2M(1) structure were also obtained. These bayerite-based LDHs have a distinctly different interlayer chemistry when compared to the better known brucite-based LDHs, in that they have a strong affinity for tetrahedral ions such as SO(4)(2-), CrO(4)(2-), and MoO(4)(2-) and a poor affinity for CO(3)(2-) ions. These observations have implications for the use of LDHs in applications related to chromate sorption.
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