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Structural Regulations of Layered Borates: From Centric Layers to Chiral Porous Layers
1MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 102488, China.
Abstract:
Three pentaborates were made by precise structural regulations under hydrothermal conditions, namely, K2Cs[B5O8(OH)]·0.5CO3 (1), KNa4Cs[B5O8(OH)]2·2OH (2), and NaBa[B5O8.5(OH)] (3). Compound 1 features the typical 2D layers constructed from the four-connected B5O10(OH) clusters. By adjustment of the reactants and pH values of the systems to remove interlayered CO3 2- groups, the centric layers in 1 were transformed to the chiral layers of 2. By further adjusting cationic templates based on host-guest charge matching, the B5O10(OH) cluster unit was transformed to B5O11(OH), which built the chiral porous layers of 3. The chiral compounds 2 and 3 exhibit moderate second harmonic generation (SHG) responses of 1.1 and 1.7 times that of KDP (KH2PO4). The structural regulations actualize the evolutions on both structural symmetries and dimensions.
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